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Patricia Kuhl: During the production of speech, when babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.
So babies absorb the statistics of the language and it changes their brains; it changes them from the citizens of the world to the culture-bound listeners that we are.
We're arguing from a mathematical standpoint that the learning of language material may slow down when our distributions stabilize.
So we asked ourselves, can the babies take statistics on a brand new language?
And we tested this by exposing American babies who'd never heard a second language to Mandarin for the first time during the critical period.
What it demonstrated is that babies take statistics on a new language.
As the baby hears a word in her language, the auditory areas light up, and then subsequently areas surrounding it that we think are related to coherence, getting the brain coordinated with its different areas, and causality, one brain area causing another to activate.
Fashion can give us a language for dissent.
And tragically, in 1999, when she was in Colombia working with the U'wa people, focused on preserving their culture and language, she and two colleagues were abducted and tortured and killed by the FARC.
But it does mean persisting in the face of their inevitable annoyance when, for example, we want them to explain things to us in language that we can actually understand.
Attached to the facial bones that define our face's structure are the muscles that deliver our facial expression, our universal language of expression, our social-signaling system.
And so with many privacy provisions put in place to protect everyone who was recorded in the data, we made elements of the data available to my trusted research team at MIT so we could start teasing apart patterns in this massive data set, trying to understand the influence of social environments on language acquisition.
And all of the data, we aligned based on the following idea: Every time my son would learn a word, we would trace back and look at all of the language he heard that contained that word.
And what we found was this curious phenomena, that caregiver speech would systematically dip to a minimum, making language as simple as possible, and then slowly ascend back up in complexity.
And we think that these affect the way language is learned.
So we're using these structures to start predicting the order of language acquisition, and that's ongoing work now.
And Michael Fleischman was another Ph.D. student in my lab who worked with me on this home video analysis, and he made the following observation: that "just the way that we're analyzing how language connects to events which provide common ground for language, that same idea we can take out of your home, Deb, and we can apply it to the world of public media."
And of course, through all of these lines are flowing unstructured language.
Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans also learn human sign language.
She managed to study English and learn that as a foreign language.
And I want to talk to you today about language loss and the globalization of English.
A language dies every 14 days.
Now, at the same time, English is the undisputed global language.
No longer just a foreign language on the school curriculum, and no longer the sole domain of mother England, it has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth.
Would he need the same language as a lawyer, for example?
I love it that we have a global language.
But if another language can think that thought, then, by cooperating, we can achieve and learn so much more.
Which tells us that when students come to us from abroad, we may not be giving them enough credit for what they know, and they know it in their own language.
When a language dies, we don't know what we lose with that language.
Mind your language.
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