Media: Media: UW-M: Infant language
| Submitter: |
Karen Chung
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| Submitter Email: | karchung@ntu.edu.tw |
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison has posted an article on research in first language acquisition by psychologist Jenny Saffran, entitled: "Infants may offer clues to language development", reported by Emily Carlson. The article, dated 2/17/03, begins: You may not know it, but you took a course in linguistics as a baby. By listening to the talk around them, infants pick up sound patterns that help them understand the speech they hear, according to new research from UW-Madison. But this research also shows that some patterns are easier to identify, suggesting that the development of human language may have been shaped by what infants could learn. The URL: http://www.news.wisc.edu/view.html?id=8292 Thanks to Peter Meijer of Philips (peter.b.l.meijer@philips.com http://www.seeingwithsound.com/) for calling this aricle to my attention. Karen Steffen Chung http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/ </body> |
| Issue Number: | 14.489 |
| Date Posted: | February 19, 2003 |
