Age of arrival
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The age of arrival marks the time at which one has arrived in a foreign country, in some functions this is used with the language proficiency of that area to plot the regression line that shows us how it is harder to learn another language when one is older.
book this variable has been seen: Kroll, Judith and Groot, Annette.Handbook of Bilingualism. New York: Oxford 2005