Xijia Zhang is affiliated with the University of Alberta. Kimberly Noels works for the University of Alberta. She receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

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