Annotated Bibliography
Linda Bookwalter
Kaplan University

Annotated Bibliography
Kuhl, P. K. (2004). Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code. Nature Reviews Neuroscience (11), 831-843. Doi: 10.1038/nrn1533. The research that Dr. Kuhl shows is that children from different parts of the world are learning other different language. The children are able to pick up the language that adults are speaking rather if it’s native or non native. All children are different in their own way. As a group, infant’s discriminatory ERP responses to the non-native contrast are present at 7 months of age, but disappear by 11 months of age, consistent with behavioral data (Kuhl, 2004). The strengths of this article is when the infants of the same age group were divided into subgroups of the components of the basis of the individuals ERP, it was evident that the brains of the infants remained sensitive to the contrast of the 11 month old of an non-native contrast. The weakness of this article there are some factors of the social skills that are effecting the language acquisition because the language that is evolved are not being addressed for the need of a child’s social communication. The influences on this article are that the children learn by simply being introduced to the proper auditory information. The data that was collected was changes that occurred during the Universal Language timeline of the perception of speech and the production of speech development. The data means what changes occurred in the typical development of an infant during their first year of life.
Mahoney, N. (2016). Language learning: National Science Foundation. Retrieved from: http://nsf.gov/news/special_reports/linguistics/learn.jsp

The research that Nicole Mahoney discusses is that all humans language is common and seems to be “hard wired” for it. The main task for linguists for