Science Cafe: How Children Learn Language | Department of Linguistics

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How Children Learn Language - And Why They're Better at It Than Adults

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Kathryn Schuler, Assistant Professor of Linguistics

June 11, 2019 • 6 p.m.

Suzanne Roberts Theatre

480 South Broad Street

It’s no secret that children excel at learning languages. Every typically developing child acquires language with little special effort or adult help. Why are they so good at this? It is something about how they learn or how their brain is organized? And how do they navigate the complex world of grammar and syntax? In the Child Language Lab <https://t.e2ma.net/click/hf0vac/ph7chq/pxzlro>at Penn, Kathryn Schuler has been grappling with such questions, and she’ll discuss what she’s learned so far.

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