Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 8 | March 17, 2014]


At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.

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