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In Berkeley Talks episode 149, Mahesh Srinivasan, an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Psychology, discusses the importance of child-directed speech in language learning, how poverty may suppress parents' speech to their children and how children learn language from overheard speech, a main form of children’s early experience with language in many cultures around the world.
This March 2022 lecture was sponsored by Science At Cal.
Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Photo by Esteban Benites via Unsplash.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In Berkeley Talks episode 149, Mahesh Srinivasan, an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Psychology, discusses the importance of child-directed speech in language learning, how poverty may suppress parents' speech to their children and how children learn language from overheard speech, a main form of children’s early experience with language in many cultures around the world.
This March 2022 lecture was sponsored by Science At Cal.
Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.
Music by Blue Dot Sessions.
Photo by Esteban Benites via Unsplash.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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