Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

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Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

Postby FG Lurker » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:45 am

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
TEDxRainier, October 10, 2010
[floatr]Image[/floatr]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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Anyone who has kids, teaches a language, or is interested in language learning in general should watch this. Very, very interesting.
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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Wed Feb 16, 2011 2:12 pm

FG Lurker wrote: Anyone who has kids, teaches a language, or is interested in language learning in general should watch this. Very, very interesting.


Indeed. It was, er...Kuhl.
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Postby FG Lurker » Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:18 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Indeed. It was, er...Kuhl.

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Postby AML » Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:33 am

Very very interesting.

Makes a lot of sense too. (why kids can learn languages so fast)

But its not like we can teach an infant 10 different languages and expect them to remember them!

If you don't continually practice/use a language you loose it. Slower when your older, faster when your younger.

How many here (long term inmates) have started forgetting English words?
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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:44 pm

FG Lurker wrote:Groan... Great to see you posting again though SDH.


No, still in the bin...they let me out on Sundays to terrorize little children.
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