Fill in the Blanks What is the critical periodOnline version Language acquisition by Maraly Oloño 1 The is when we have a specific time to acquire and that in order to acquire it we must be exposed to language during our first years of life until middle . In our we have a to adapt to different situations such as the of language and this is what we call , so the acquisition of language is easy and fast while we are young but with growth decreases . When are isolated from contact and therefore from language , they begin to have in certain functions of their brain .