[EDLING:394] Making learning look like child's play

[Francis Hult]

Wisconsin State Journal

 

Making learning look like child's play

 

By the time a baby is 10 months old, he or she typically will have heard about a million sentences and many millions more words. 

 

Behind the baby 's gurgles and blinks and chuckles and burps, an amazing change is occurring virtually unseen. A little brain is whirring, picking out, processing and sorting out sounds. 

 

It may not be put on display for months to come, but the child is already well on the way to part of its birthright as a human being, with the ability to communicate with richness and nuance. 

 

That transformation has intrigued UW-Madison psychologist Jenny Saffran for more than a decade. 

 

Full story:

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=247352&ntpid=
 
 
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Francis M. Hult, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
University of Texas at San Antonio
 
Web: http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/
 
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