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The linguistic genius of babies


By : Patricia Kuhl

Patricia talk about something people can’t see from the babies. The little brain of theirs. The babies and children are geniuses until the age of seven, and then there is a systematic decline. Patricia says to all that babies as “citizens of the world”, because they can discriminate all the sound of all language, no matter what country and what language. That’s very brilliant. An adult cannot do that. Adults only can discriminate the sounds of their own language. Patricia shows a video the different sound of English and Japan. At 6-8 months, the babies are totally equivalent. Two months later, something incredible occurs. The babies in the US are getting better, while babies in Japan are getting worse. Both of those group of babies are preparing for exactly the language that they are going to learn. During this two months, the babies listen intently to adult, and they’re talking statistics as they listen to people talk. Then they listen to two mothers speaking motheress. First in English and then in Japanese. 
The statistics of English and Japanese are very different. English has a lot of Rs and Ls. Japanese is totally different, where a group of intermediate sounds, which is known as the Japanese “R”. So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains. But adult are no longer absorbing those statistics. 
We are embarking on a grand and golden age of knowledge about child’s brain development. We’re going to be able to see a child’s brain ass they experience an emotion, ass they learn to speak and read, as they solve a math problem, as they hane an idea. And we are going to be able to invent brain-based interventations for children who have difficulty learning. 
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