Eric Heinz Lenneberg, who lived from 19 September 1921 to 31 May 1975, was a linguist and neurologist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness. Born in Dusseldorf, Germany, he left Nazi Germany and later taught at the Harvard Medical School, the University of Michigan and Cornell University. In his publication Biological Foundations of Language he advanced the hypothesis of a critical period for language development, a topic that remains controversial and the subject of debate.
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He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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he taught at the Harvard Medical School, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Cornell University and Medical School
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The critical period hypothesis was first proposed by Montreal neurologist Wilder Penfield and co-author Lamar Roberts in their 1959 book Speech and Brain Mechanisms, and was popularized by Eric Lenneberg in 1967 with Biological Foundations of Language.
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