a summary of ted talk -The linguistic genius of babies by patricia kuhl

Usually, if we see a baby, what comes to our mind is  her eyes and the skin we love to touch but the speaker has different mind in looking them, it is all about what we cannot see, that’s what is in their brain. This ted talk tell us how we learn language as babies, looking at the ways our brains form around language acquisition.

The speaker said that in india, there is a mother who speaks koro, a newly discovered language, she teaches it to her baby in order to preserve the language, he choose baby because of their brain, it has to do with brains. Language has systematic period i learning and The babies and children are geniuses until they turn seven so that is why, babies and children will easily absorp a new language.

She has been studying the babies using a technique that we're using all over the world and the sounds of all languages, babies tested in Tokyo and the United States and she got the result that  at six to eight months, the babies are totally equivalent. Two months later, something incredible occurs. The babies in the United States are getting a lot better, babies in Japan are getting a lot worse, but both of those groups of babies are preparing for exactly the language that they are going to learn.

 During the production of speech, when babies listen,  they are taking statistics on the language that they hear. and those distributions grow able to let us know that babies are sensitive to the statistics. babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners but  adults are no longer absorbing those statistics because they has been governed by representations in memory that were formed early in development.