Wednesday, February 16, 2011

patricia kuhl



celestial openness of the child's mind

studying how sounds are learned..

interesting... citizens of the world turn into language bound listeners before their first birthday

babies listening intently and taking statistics











babies are sensitive to the statistics, adults no longer absorb them,  we're governed by the representations in memory that were formed early in development
the learning of language may slow down when our distributions stabilize
bilinguals must keep 2 sets in mind at once
can babies take stats on a brand new language - they found out yes
found it takes a human being for learning to take place, no tv no teddies

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