The linguistic genius of babies
https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies/transcript?language
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1) What you need to do to preserve a language is to have a conversation.
2) Children have a great potential for acquiring a second language after the age of 7.
3) Babies under one year of age can discriminate all sounds of all languages, no matter
which country they live in.
4) Babies take statistics of the sounds of the language they hear.
5) Bilingual people cannot keep two sets of statistics.
6) The speaker claims they will be able to invent brain-based intervention for children
with learning difficulties.
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