TED Talks: The Linguistic Genius of Babies
Patricia Kuhl on how babies use sophisticated reasoning when learning language.
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At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.