The linguistic genius of babies by Patricia Kuhl (2010)

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The linguistic genius of babies described by Patricia Khul illustrates how the ease of language learned by a baby with their research. A mother in India speaks Koro which is the language of her area, she talks to her baby using Koro language. To preserve the local language or commonly called the mother tongue needs to be preserved and talk to the baby itself. When talking to the baby there lays the critical puzzle described by Patricia Kuhl.

Babies and other genius children learn the language of the mother's decline systematically. But after puberty they are far from language learning, this is where the scientists want to be meticulously. Where the period of development of a baby master the sounds used in their language. By studying how the voice is learned, it has a model for language, where there is childhood for social, emotional and cognitive development. We have learned the baby language using the same technique throughout the world that is sound. They train babies who sit on their parents' lap to turn their heads when the "ee" sound changes from "ah" if they do so precisely then the black box is on and the panda pound drum bear, a tool for their research.

Babies around the world distinguish all sounds from all languages, no need what country and what language we use. They can distinguish sounds from our own language, in their research on American babies and Japanese infants tested to hear the words "ra" and "la" which sounds important to English but not to Japanese. If the baby is six to eight months, the baby is really equal. Two months later, something extraordinary happened. Infants in the United States are much better and babies in Japan are much worse, but the baby group is preparing the language to be learned.

The development of baby voice that has been learned is that babies listen to us speak, listening to the mother speak is a universal language used to talk with children. When babies listen to them take statistics on the language they hear, and babies are very sensitive to statistics.

They run a control group on infants at the Laboratory, so groups of babies listen to English and Mandarin, whatever puts in front of them, they will take the statistics and show them learning the language. Baby brain diversions learn the language by using audio to learn their statistics. They see changes that occur in infants if you are in front of the television. And they also have a machine to test the baby that is magneto encephalography.

Knowledge of the baby's brain development undergoes emotional changes while learning to speak, and parents have interventions for children who have difficulty learning. In investigating the child's brain, we reveal the profound truth about what it means to be human, and in the process we can help keep our own mind open to learning our entire lives.