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Comparing Dr. Kuhl's Reasoning And Analysis On Language Acquisition

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In this article, Dr. Kuhl explains her reasoning and analysis on language acquisition. She explains how infants apprehend language at a phenomenal rate and the way they are able to do it has yet to be figured out. However, recent findings from conducted studies show infants use methods to figure out ways display patterns. The patterns eventually find new phonemes and words. Similar to songbirds, cooperation and collaborations with humans inspire the way they apprehend speech. The brains responsibility to the data found and patterns seen could help with the determination of why infants are more successful when apprehending language than adults are. Accomplishments that infants master and how they do so are changing philosophies of language acquisition.

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