On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Becky Columbus wrote:
>
> While I haven't come across any studies that answer question #1, there is
> some evidence that babies can discriminate between languages earlier than 6
> months.
> Apparently, human babies can differentiate between languages as early as 4
> days a
At 09:28 AM 4/10/99 -0400, Stephen Black wrote:
>My question: is there any evidence to the contrary, either that:
>
>1) early babbling of babies is _not_ the same the world over
>
>2) babies no older than six months _do_ show differences in their
>ability to detect phonemic pairs depending on wh
In child psychology I reviewed evidence that the fetus can hear, and
that she can learn from the sound of the human voice she hears in
utero.
Later, in language development I discussed Chomsky's LAD, and said it
was a mistake to think that it includes innate knowledge of a
particular language. I
