kartavnie

[Benjamin Rifkin]

This was also reported in the NY Times Science Times section a few
years ago:  precisely at the age of 6 months, children raised in a
monolingual family can recognize the sounds of their native language
and discriminate between those sounds, on the one hand, and sounds of
another language, on the other.  From my own personal experience I can
report that my daughter, at the age of 7 or so months, started to
scream every time I spoke Russian in her presence (on the phone or to
Russian guests in our home).  This "screaming at Russian" phase lasted
for a few months (thank goodness it ended!)

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin

On May 11, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Valery Belyanin wrote:

> Hello Alex
> As I wrote in my textbook on psycholinguistics
> http://www.textology.ru/anons1.html
> it happens at 6 months of age.
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>
> Best regards,
> Valery Belyanin /  $B'#'Q']'V'b'Z'[ (B  $B'"'V']'q'_'Z'_ (B
> Editor of the electronic magazine on Russian culture www.textology.ru
>
>
> Monday, May 10, 2004, 3:51:23 PM, you wrote:
> A> Hello Paul, Genevra,
>
> A> I think that if you listen to two different one-year old children -
> A> one is English and the other is Russian, you hardly could
> distinguish
> A> which is which from the sounds they make (perhaps the same is for
> Chinese,
> A> Peruvian and any other children). Could somebody tell me when and
> how
> A> kids start to speak in a "national" way?
> A> (By the way, usually most kids manage to pronounce all sounds
> A> properly after 5 and sometimes even later)
>
> A> Alex S
>
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