Patricia Kuhl tells about a mother in India speaks Koro
which is a newly-discovered language. She is talking to her baby. What this
mother and the 800 people who speak Koro in the world understand that to
preserve this language they need to speak it to the babies because babies and
children are geniuses until they turn seven years old. The first critical
period in development is the period where babies master which sound is used in
their language. There are two things going on during the critical two month period,
the first is that the babies are listening intently to us and they are taking
statistics as they listen to us talk. Babies are sensitive to the statistics.
For example, two mothers speaking motherese to the kids, English and Japanese.
So, when babies listen, the babies are taking statistics on the language that
they hear. The statistics of Japanese and English is very different. English
has a lot of R and L. Whereas the group of intermediates sounds in Japanese is
known as the Japanese R. So, 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. American
and Japanese babies show that there is a critical 2 month period around 8 to 10
months babies. At 6 to 8 months both American and Japanese babies have similar score on
performance on English sounds but when they are 10 to 12
months the American babies perform better than the Japanese. We are going able to see the child’s brain
as they experience an emotion, as they learn to speak and read, as they have an
idea. And we are going to be able to invent brain based interventions for
children who have difficulty learning. In investigating the child’s brain, we
are going to uncover deep truths about what it means to be human and in the
process we may be able to help keep our own minds open to learning for our
entire lives.
John McWhorter tells that texting spells the decline and fall of any kind of serious literacy or at least writing ability among young people in the United States and now the whole world today. Texting is not writing at all. If humanity had existed for 24 hours, writing only came along at about 11:07 p.m. That is how much of a latterly thing of writing. The first there is a speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. Speech is much looser. It’s much more telegraphic, much less reflective, it’s very different from writing. In a distant are now, it was common when one gave a speech to basically talk like writing. If we can speak like writing, then logically it follows that you might want to also sometimes write like we speak. One we have think that can receive the message then we have the conditions that allow that we can write like we speak, and that’s where texting comes in. Texting is very loose in its structure. No one think about capital letters or punctuation when o...
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