... of our memory for when things happened. The less that people can remember about an event, then often the older the memory is thought to be. Brown et al. (1985) investigated this by asking a set of people to date 50 news events (relating to the period 1977-82) that they would ... were with, where they were and what they were doing at the time of some dramatic event (such as the death of Princess Diana). Brown and Kulik (1977) named these kinds of memories flashbulb memories. They put forward that emotional and surprising events, which are personally important, might ... automatically be...

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... 's pronunciation. As explanation, "evidence shows that the particular motor skill of speech pronunciation is best developed at a younger age."(Steinberg: 208) Another possible reason is offered by Flege (Theo Bongaerts et al, 1997) that "one of the main cause of foreign accents is the increasing tendency of L2 learners, once they have established the phonetic categories for their L1, to perceive ... language than children, although no evidence is available in classroom situation. My reason is that "adults, more cognitively secure, appear to operate from the solid foundation of the first ...

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