The Linguistic Gift of BabiesCritical 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 babiesResults: ● 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 — twomonths later: 9 ●Two events during the critical two months — 10 when listening to a language — change of babies' brains when distributions growConclusion Language learning may slow down when sound distributions become stable.