Language Attainment May Begin in the Womb

Neuroplasticity is seen in young children, neurobiologists are very interested in the learning process. Because human growth is attractive, how does the brain develop and acquire the skills we need? It is generally understood that a baby crying can only be comforted by his mother and can recognize her voice through the voice of a stranger. Many researches have been done on baby 's unique reaction to the sound of her own language and foreign languages, which may be heard repeatedly in fetal life etc.

Studies have shown that babies begin to learn languages ​​before babies are born. In utero the mother's voice is one of the most outstanding voices the fetus listens. When born, newborns can not only distinguish mothers' languages ​​from other languages ​​but also distinguish languages. Between 6 months and 12 months, babies, raised in a single language family, will be specialized in a subset of native language voices. In other words, they become "mother tongue experts". Furthermore, on their first birthday, monolingual babies began to lose their ability to hear differences in the sound of foreign languages.

Rare thing to learn the form and grammar of the second language is native speaking that is automatically learned by learners of first language in childhood. Ability for a child to begin to perceive language-specific sounds within the womb. For example, their ability to distinguish mothers 'preferences for mothers' voice, the parent's language, and the prose heard while listening. The last three months of the novel. In the months after birth, babies can reliably distinguish phonemes of many different natural languages, regardless of whether they appear in the place they are trying to become their language. However, from 6 months to 1 year, the sensitivity of this unprecedented phoneme almost disappears and by age 1, children often use the language they listen to distinguish between words. For example, Japanese children lose the ability to distinguish between English / r / and / l / (Kuhl et al., 1997 b).