Sentence examples for language infant from inspiring English sources

We then began to plan the implementation of a Chinese language infant feeding telephone hotline in consultation with the regional Vancouver Richmond Health Board (VRHB).

To begin breaking into language, infants must discern subtle statistical differences about people and voices in order to direct their attention toward the most relevant signals.

Previous research by her group showed that exposing English-language infants in Seattle to someone speaking to them in Mandarin helped those babies preserve the ability to discriminate Chinese language sounds, but when the same "dose" of Mandarin was delivered by a television program or an audiotape, the babies learned nothing.

Perception of the tritone, she believes, depends on what language an infant heard.

It follows that given most women agree strongly with the paramount importance of safety of the baby, that this 'Take it as it comes' group would be particularly vulnerable to acceding to an intervention that was in any way couched with language promoting infant wellbeing.

According to the historian Robert Lyndsay of Pitscottie, in 1493 James directed that a dumb woman and two infants be transported to the island, to ascertain which language the infants would grow up to speak when isolated from the rest of the world.

A little exposure to a nonnative language allows infants to retain their verbal flexibility longer, so a team led by infant researchers Olivier Pascalis of the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and Charles Nelson at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis wondered if the same applied to face recognition.

Infants who recover quickly from poor birth condition have similar scores for tests of memory, attention and language as infants thought to be well at birth.

Thiessen and Saffran (2009, p. 231) have suggested that "One possibility is that natural systems, such as music and language, present infants with a near-optimal level of complexity: enough to facilitate, but not enough to overwhelm.

Beyond that, in a larger cultural sense, women with adaptive traits may play a key role in bringing new cultural attitudes and meanings into innovation-dependent economies, both because of their role in teaching language to infants and because of their financial support of avant-garde literature.

(21, 38) We propose that the surface complexity of languages arose as an adaptation to the esoteric niche and is the result of a pressure to facilitate learning of the language by infants (without regard for adult learnability which is irrelevant for languages that are not being learned by adults).