Jamila Lyiscott is an anticulate person which means that
when it comes to enunciation and diction she does not even think of it. Even,
when her professor aska the question, she answers it tainted with connotation
of ubbanized suggestion, there’s no misdirected intention. Jamila speaks three
tongues: home, school, and friend. She is a tri-lingual orator. Sometimes she
is consistent with her language now, then switch it up so she does not bore
later and sometimes she fight back two tongues while she uses the other one in
the classroom. When we speak English, let there be no confusion and hesitation.
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 t...
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