<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's a new post on <A href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">the Web of Language</A>:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Watching TV delays infant language, but don't touch that dial . . .</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Parents regularly tell children that watching television will rot their brains, and now there’s proof. According to Frederick Zimmerman and his team of researchers at the University of Washington, watching television – whether it’s "American Idol" or "Sesame Street" – actually shrinks babies’ vocabulary by up to six to eight words per hour. The study, published in the August, 2007, issue of the <I>Journal of Pediatrics,</I><SPAN style=""> found that "each hour per day of viewing baby DVDs/videos was associated with a 16.99-point decrement" in cognitive development compared with babies who did not watch TV.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"> <O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">Even if they were plopped down in front of so-called educational DVDs like Baby Einstein or not-for-profit children’s programming like "Blue’s Clues," TV-viewing babies were falling behind their peers who preferred traditional children’s literature like "Pat the Bunny." Babies who had never heard of Shakespeare, Mozart or Monet (all available from Baby Einstein) were actually outpacing TV-addicted babies in learning to talk...<O:P></O:P></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal">find out more on this, and other stories of language in the news, on <A href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">the Web of Language</A></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"></DIV><A href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage</A><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; 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