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Which of the following is true about the study conducted on the nine-month-old children?
Exposing children to more words would seem simple
enough in language acquisition. But language delivered
by television, audiobook, Internet, or smartphone – no
matter how educational – does not appear to do the job.
That is what researchers led by Patricia Kuhl, a
neuroscientist at the University of Washington in
Seattle, learned from a study of nine-month-old children.
In their study, they exposed nine-month-olds from
English-speaking families to Mandarin. Some of the
children interacted with native Mandarin-speaking tutors,
who played with them and read to them. Another group
of children saw and heard the same Mandarin-speaking
tutors through a video presentation. And a third group
heard only the audio track. After all the children had
been through 12 sessions, they were tested on their
ability to discriminate between similar phonetic sounds
in Mandarin. The researchers expected the children who
had watched the videos to show the same kind of
learning as the kids tutored face-to-face. Instead they
found a huge difference. The children exposed to the
language through human interaction were able to
discriminate between similar Mandarin sounds as well
as native speakers. But the other infants showed no
learning whatsoever. This led Kuhl to propose what she
calls social gating hypothesis – the idea that social
experience is a portal to linguistic development.