The linguistic genius of babies



Video 7 Patricia Kuhl- The linguistic genius of babies

            The babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven, and then there's a systematic decline. After puberty, they fall off the map. No scientists dispute this curve. By studying how the sounds are learned, we'll have a model for the rest of language, and perhaps for critical periods that may exist in childhood for social, emotional and cognitive development. Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as "citizens of the world." They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using, and that's remarkable because you and I can't do that. We're culture-bound listeners. We can discriminate the sounds of our own language, but not those of foreign languages. During the production of speech, when babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear. And those distributions grow. And what we've learned is that babies are sensitive to the statistics, and the statistics of each languages are very different.

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