Question:
How does a baby learn language, when learning requires concentration and
focus, and a baby is too little to do either?
They always say, you missed what was being discussed if you didn't
concentrate, but a baby is too little to concentrate yet picks up detail
after detail and learns to talk gramatically.
I understood the ability to focus narrowly only develops when a child is
older, so how do they all learn to talk by age 3 or so?
Perhaps something is wrong with our understanding of concentration,
learning, focus , retention, etc.
Answer:
An infant mastering its native language(s) is not doing "learning"
that's anything like the learning done in school.
It's impossible to prevent a human infant (barring severe brain damage)
from learning the language(s) spoken around it. It just comes naturally.
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