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Wed Feb 19 2003

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  • Karen Chung, Media: UW-M: Infant language

    Message 1: Media: UW-M: Infant language

     Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:04:25 +0800
    From: Karen Chung <karchungntu.edu.tw>
    Subject: Media: UW-M: Infant language


    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.meijerphilips.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/