Possible Exciting Example of Innate Language Genius
If the purported story in the Beijing Times can be believed, we have here an example of a two-month old baby that can speak two words already.
Would be interesting to know how many months late this kid was born, if any.
Truth be told however, it's not too big of a stretch to suppose that this sort of thing goes on all the time but goes unrecognized. I for one remain convinced that when my daughter was four months old, she tried to say kittycat, but people generally have a hard time believing that. This alleged story in the Beijing Times, if true, supports the possibility that she really could have been picking up language at that stage. The thing is, it didn't stick, and after this brief phase of saying "keeka" whenever she saw the cat, she seemed to lose the ability. Perhaps this Chinese baby will also drop the language game for a time, who knows ...
Proposing a simple parroting instinct may seem to solve it all, but there's still the intriguing issue of how my daughter said "keeka" only in the context of the appearance of the cat.
Would be interesting to know how many months late this kid was born, if any.
Truth be told however, it's not too big of a stretch to suppose that this sort of thing goes on all the time but goes unrecognized. I for one remain convinced that when my daughter was four months old, she tried to say kittycat, but people generally have a hard time believing that. This alleged story in the Beijing Times, if true, supports the possibility that she really could have been picking up language at that stage. The thing is, it didn't stick, and after this brief phase of saying "keeka" whenever she saw the cat, she seemed to lose the ability. Perhaps this Chinese baby will also drop the language game for a time, who knows ...
Proposing a simple parroting instinct may seem to solve it all, but there's still the intriguing issue of how my daughter said "keeka" only in the context of the appearance of the cat.
posted by Jim Richardson at 9:58 PM
2 Comments:
Very interesting!
Do you happen to have a link to the story? I can't seem to find it.
Thanks!
Clicking the title of the post should work, that's the link. Let us know if that doesn't work and we'll tinker about.
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