What Children Learn About Language - 3 views
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Ryan Catalani on 19 Sep 10"While we know abstractly that we are hearing a sequence of arbitrary sounds, it feels as if thoughts are simply pouring into our minds... Learning to understand a language is like cracking a deeply encrypted code." "Babies are born knowing a great deal about language. They also have powerful learning procedures that allow them to add to that knowledge and, in particular, to learn all the details and peculiarities of the language of their own community."