The linguistic genius of babies
4,466,490 views |
Patricia Kuhl |
TEDxRainier
• October 2010
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.