Is speech learning ‘gated’ by the social brain?

著者: Patricia K. Kuhl - Developmental Science 2006 被引用: 708

I advance the hypothesis that the earliest phases of language acquisition -- the developmental transition from an initial universal state of language processing to one that is language-specific -- requires social interaction. Relating human language learning to a broader set of neurobiological cases of communicative development, I argue that the social brain 'gates' the computational mechanisms involved in human language learning.