How babies use their eyes in learning language (fwd link)

[Mia Kalish]

Alan Metzoff is Pat Kuhl's husband, and Pat Kuhl is one of the foremost
researchers in how babies model language before they begin to speak. I used
all her research in my master's thesis. She has cool (Kuhl) graphs of how
babies develop phonemic understandings. I always thought that her research,
and her husband's, had much to offer for revitalization - but nobody much
agrees with me. 

Mia

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How babies use their eyes in learning language

Infants begin pulling off an amazing feat sometime in the final three
months of their first year of life. They learn an important social
interaction by following the gaze of an adult, a step that scientists
believe gives babies a leg up on understanding language.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=33398