Abstract

BOYSSON-BARDIES, Bénédicte de. How language comes to children. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2009, vol.43, n.1, pp.97-103. ISSN 0486-641X.

From birth, human children are equipped to develop a human language. A baby’s brain is a precision mechanism to discover and understand spoken language structure. A child is a natural born researcher: his/her initial perceptive space is influenced by the mother tongue’s own properties. By listening to the language, with which there’s a previous experience during the last pre-natal months, the babies unchain other possibilities that allow them to speak the language in an extraordinarily short period. This quick learning deeply widens humankind’s horizons.

Keywords : Language; Listening; Children; Mother tongue; Culture; Language development.

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