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Babies Can Learn Words as Early as 10 Months

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the babytalk dept.

linguizic writes "According to Scientific American Online: '10 month olds can learn to associate words with objects in their environment when given interesting enough stimuli. A two-year-old can quickly link an object--whether a flashy rattle or a boring latch--to a word. Even a one-year-old can follow a parent's gaze to an object and match it with a word being spoken. But although anecdotal evidence seems to show that babies younger than one year can learn words, it remains unclear whether they are in fact mastering language. Now a new study reveals that 10-month-old infants can link words and objects, but only if the object is already interesting to them.'"

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  1. yeah, but can a baby... by yagu · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the Slashdot: .A two-year-old can quickly link an object.... Yeah, but at what age can a baby levarage development patterns? No baby is going to be much use until he (she) knows the difference between a Singleton and a Factory.

    1. Re:yeah, but can a baby... by AnonymousPrick · · Score: 2, Funny
      Yeah, but at what age can a baby levarage development patterns? No baby is going to be much use until he (she) knows the difference between a Singleton and a Factory.

      Well, if you'd buy him the Fisher Price Object Oriented Compiler with the accompanied Sponge Bob Square Pants development frameworks, he would learn about that. It's all the rage in India. Geeze! You're such a bad parent!

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  2. Re:Mastery?? by CRCulver · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, sometimes even we Slashdotters don't have enough attention sp--- Oooh, shiny thing! *NO CARRIER*

  3. Talking dogs by Otter · · Score: 1, Funny
    This isn't a normally a source of valuable scientific information, but -- I was watching America's Funniest Home Videos a few nights ago, and they had a long series of videos of dogs "talking" like parrots.

    I'd had no idea dogs could be trained to do that but since a) they had seven or eight of them and b) all the owners were teaching them to say the same thing ("Love you Mama"), it must be something people commonly know. Does everyone know this? A Google search mostly turns up page after page of links to videos on blocked or NSFW sites.

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  4. Re:Not Surprising by linguizic · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's nothing! My unborn son can tap out on his mothers womb in morse code the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy from rote in Elvish (both kinds!). Now he's learning semaphore!

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  5. Re:Not Surprising by bjpirt · · Score: 3, Funny
    Now he's learning semaphore


    that's gotta hurt