How Babies Learn Language

[gothiclolitachan]

I'm studying experimental linguistics, and even I found this a little difficult to understand.. If you want to get a better understanding of what they are trying to do, try reading works by Janet Werker, her studies are a little easier to understand.

[aikodaikeiko]

i came to the united states from china now im trying to learn american english and speak it like a native speaker. i pray every night for this.

[eivarden]

i tried to watch, but the constant repeating of what we already heard got to me.

[GhettoAttack1]

thx for explaining what vowel harmony is.. oh wait u didnt

[MyNamelsSylar]

Everytime that guy talks, and he says "um" or "so" or other pause words, he puts his hands together. I love to look at peoples hand gestures during prolonged speech. It's fascinating...haha

[JimiJCM1113]

Great job from both of you with the introduction of your research.

What were your results? Were they statistically significant?

[thenewrapstyle]

i don't buy it. babies don't speak because they are lazy freeloaders.

[pontaven12]

Well she might be a fast speaker but I think she gave a decent explanation.

I think that it is an interesting and important topic

[BintAbeeha1]

what were the results to your study? Were the children able to distinguish between the different words?

[firebreathone2]

Potentially very interesting but you should have spoken more slowly, and as Pave rightly points out, you may be confusing rhetoric with Universal Grammar/linguistics

[Kruezoraxe]

@firebreathone2 I'm pretty sure that they made the prosody of the language to be similar to other languages. In fact across languages, speech is approximately the same speed. A foreign language just sounds so much faster because you aren't as aware of the minute pauses.

[utubegay1]

babies are cute!

[madelefant05]

If this were a language learning tool it would be a language creating tool as well so if what they say is right english wouldn't have developed the way it is because it doesn't mirror our innate language capabilities.

[rfwelsh]

This study seems pretty convoluted.

[ameshabyebye]

And your point in short????

[elbombardi]

I could not make word segmentation me myself duh!

[Deemeree]

Looked like it could be a fantastic video, but the fast rate of speech made it so unpleasant to listen to that I had to stop only 2.5 minutes through. The researcher even spoke this fast to the parent - a definite no no when explaining new concepts to a lay person.

[mediatapwater]

she talks too fast..typical american cocky way of talking.

[MassGinn]

@mediatapwater Yep.

[NaraByra]

too much talking, very boring !!!!!

[axoupixou]

lot of blablabla

[Mafiaboss58]

humans always think they're smart and they think are able to figure out what a cause and effect of something...

[hamdome00001]

i think i had this college course in 7th grade. that kid is going to be messed up

[Yobero]

Toby is definitely more pleasant to listen to than the woman starting the video. She talked like a teenybopper and has a very unpleasant voice plus she up-talks like crazy.

[PavelSTL]

Good job guys, interesting. Does this mean that if I miss the "window of opportunity" in infancy then I won't EVER be able to perceive the details of sounds of other languages? And if so, how do those very few manage to learn another language in adolescence and speak without an accent?

[antisawsaw]

too many ahhhs from the Dr. of Linguists....

[PavelSTL]

I think you're confusing Linguistics with Rhetoric or Public Speaking.

[tvdavidb]

Am doing some post-bach work in Second Lang. Acquision and found this interesting & helpful. Your research also reinforces innate langugae abilities in babies.