How babies learn languages
How babies learn a language
How babies learn languages I think how babies learn language is common sense. Many times linguists have crazy theories about how babies learn language. But the bottom line is babies systematically sort though sounds and categorizes them to create a structure which they can subsequently hang further linguistic information. It is not, in my opinion, any innate knowledge, rather it is learned.
“A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk, researchers said on Tuesday. They said the finding casts doubt on theories that babies are born knowing all the possible sounds in all of the world’s languages. “The debate in language acquisition is around the question of how much specific information about language is hard-wired into the brain of the infant and how much of the knowledge that infants acquire about language is something that can be explained by relatively general purpose learning systems,” said James McClelland, a psychology professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California” Read the full article on How a babies learn a language.
If you want to learn a language fast I will have an MP3 program and a computer program to learn a language.
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August 1, 2007at 8:27 am
i have a doughter , she is just 2 years old, i know 5 languges, actualy i love the forign languges, i did teach her german languge, and she did learn it very fast, you know , i think the babies understand first just words and than they want to repeat it , when i did talk with her she was just 6 mounthes and i did not think she can learn it, but when she was just 12 mounthes , i saw that she can understand every thing that i said , it was great, she can speak now Farsi and german, sure not comepleatly but its very good, that i see she can understand and talk a little.