Friday, October 14, 2011

Hearing Bilingual

NY Times article entitled "Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language." This article reviews some intriguing research on how newborns hear the phonemes in different languages, and how the brain re-wires itself to recognize those different languages. It also explains that infants can learn different languages from people who are speaking the language to them in person, but not from a TV or computer screen. What advantage do you think having a brain wired to understand multiple languages would be? Should parents use daycares that utilize bilingual individuals and instruction rather than waiting until their child is older to expose her to another language?

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