The linguistic genius of babies [Video]
At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.
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Awesome video. I teach English to mothers and their babies in Japan. I wish I could find a translation for this in Japanese.
Cheers,
Kev
As a parent of a bilingual child and someone who learned a second language as an adult, I found this speech to be very interesting. In particular, I appreciated hearing about the relationship between age and new language acquisition (the cut-off mark being age 7). The speech is excellently done - professional, factual and authentic. Thank you for presenting it here.