# The linguistic genius of babies

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxRainier
- Speaker: Patricia Kuhl
- Year: 2010
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, Languages and linguistics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.

## Lectures

1. [The linguistic genius of babies](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies/afaa8d20f003), 10 min (TED's player)