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How grief can cause language loss

I was perfectly bilingual as a child but after my grandmother died I stopped speaking her language and now I cannot remember how.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Emotional trauma can sever the neural pathways that once carried inherited language, creating loss upon loss.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Second language acquisition theory?”

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