填空题
Critical age
Decline of babies" language learning ability occurs at the age of 1
Lab work
Research focus:
● How babies learn 2 in the first critical period
Research aims:
● developing a model for babies in their critical periods of
—language acquisition
—social, emotional and 3 development
Research process:
● Babies need to listen.
● They are trained to turn their heads when 4 .
● A panda bear pounds a drum if babies are correct.
Participants:
● 5 babies
Results:
● Babies can 6 of all languages.
● Babies become language-bound before 7 .
—sound reaction between American and Japanese babies
- 6 to 8 months old: 8
- two months later: 9
● Two events during the critical two months
— 10 when listening to a language
—change of babies" brains when distributions grow
Conclusion
Language learning may slow down when sound distributions become stable.