[Ted Talk] The linguistic genius of babies

                                                       Ted.com : Patricia Kuhl   

The babies describe as citizens of the world, they can discriminate  the sounds of all languages no matter what country we’re testing and what the language we’re using. The citizen of the world turn into language bound listeners that we are before they first birthday. Based on performance on English r-I Sounds show that the babies  tested in Tokyo and United State they listened to “ra” and “la” is sound important to English, but not to Japanese. At six to eight months the babies are totally equivalent. In two months something incredible occurs that the babies in United State are getting a lot better but the babies in Japan are getting a lot worse. Both of the babies groups are preparing to learn the languages. There are two thing going on critical two months period : first the babies are listening intendly and taking statistics as they listen to what we talk. Second using the mother universal language when talking to the kids first in English and then Japanese. That mean the babies can ease know the language with using mother tongue.

The statistic between Japanese and English is very different. English has a lot of R’s and L’s that the distribution shows and the Japanese is R. The babies  absorb the statistic of language and this change their brain from citizens of the world to the culture bound listeners. The babies that came to English as the graph show that exposure to English didn’t improve their mandarin. But the babies that exposed to mandarin for 12 sessions, their is as a good babies in Taiwan who have been listening for 10 and a half of months. The demonstrated of babies take the statistic on a new languages. The child brain as they experience an emotion for read and speak and the others thing. The audio and video result no learning whatsoever for the babies. Its mean that take the human for babies to take their statistic.