Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies



How and when do children learn best.

Fascinating. "Your Baby Can Read" is a hoax. Only through direct human interaction will babies learn to read and speak. This has been a question some of my friends have wondered about.

UofW Biography
Background information on speaker

Cracking the Speach Code: Language and the infant Brain
Lecture given on the subject

Infant Science
2005 Seattle Times magazine article about the findings

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