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PATRICIA KUHL : THE LINGUISTIC GENIUS OF BABIES



The babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven. That is the period in which babies try to master which sounds are used in their language and how the sounds are learned. In other words, Patricia described babies all over the world are as "citizens of the world." They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using. They can do that while we are as adult cannot do that. Babies are sensitive to the statistics, and the statistics of Japanese and English are totally different. English has a lot of R and L sound while japan doesn’t has it, and American babies can recognize those sound better than japanese babies. That result explained that babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners. Even we as adults are no longer absorbing those statistics. We are governed by the representations in memory that were formed early in development. In short, babies are genius due to they can absorb the statistics of the language then can recognize the sounds of native and non native speaker easily. 
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