Rick Hellman — Telling languages apart may begin in the womb

This relates to the debate over what is innate (natural) and what is acquired (learned). 

While language is mostly acquired, the ability to learn a language is innate, research shows.

Decades old research has shown that infants can distinguish language from random noise, that is, they can sense a signal and discriminate between signal from noise. Now it appears that this is also true of fetuses.

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Telling languages apart may begin in the womb
Rick Hellman | Writer for Futurity

Deborah Bach — Babies can learn a second language in 1 hour per day

“Science indicates that babies’ brains are the best learning machines ever created, ...” says coauthor Patricia Kuhl, codirector of I-LABS and a professor of speech and hearing sciences.

A primary ask of educational research is how to harness this most effectively and efficiently. Presently, a lot of potential is going to waste. Waste is uneconomical.

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Babies can learn a second language in 1 hour per day
Deborah Bach