{"id":263,"date":"2012-08-01T20:30:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2012-08-01T20:34:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:34:17","slug":"patricia-kuhl-the-linguistic-genius-of-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"tagline\">At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another &#8212; by listening to the humans around them and &#8220;taking statistics&#8221; on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Kuhl studies how we learn language as babies, looking at the ways our brains form around language acquisition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as \u2018citizens of the world.\u2019 They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we\u2019re testing and what language we\u2019re using. -Patricia Kuhl\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"526\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2010X\/Blank\/PatriciaKuhl_2010X-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/PatriciaKuhl-2010X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1075&#038;lang=en&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies;year=2010;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=words_about_words;event=TEDxRainier;tag=brain;tag=children;tag=language;tag=science;tag=technology;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgColor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"526\" height=\"374\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2010X\/Blank\/PatriciaKuhl_2010X-320k.mp4&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/PatriciaKuhl-2010X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=512&#038;vh=288&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1075&#038;lang=en&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies;year=2010;theme=how_the_mind_works;theme=words_about_words;event=TEDxRainier;tag=brain;tag=children;tag=language;tag=science;tag=technology;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another &#8212; by listening to the humans around them and &#8220;taking statistics&#8221; on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world. Patricia Kuhl studies how we learn language as babies, looking at the ways our<br \/><a class=\"cta\" href=\"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/?p=263\">Learn more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingual-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piccolaitaliapreschool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}