How do babies acquire language? What are the universal stages in language development? What mechanisms enable rapid acquisition? For the past thirty years, cognitive science research has documented the different stages of language development. It has revealed that infants and young children learn to understand and speak their mother tongue with surprising speed and without apparent effort. By the age of 3 or 4, although children's vocabulary is still limited and their pronunciation needs to improve, they already produce well-formed sentences and their language comprehension skills are comparable to those of adults. Discover how researchers are trying to unravel the mechanisms that allow babies and young children to learn their mother tongue. . 00:00 ► Introduction 02:50 ► What does it take for language development? 13:14 ► Variability in language acquisition between babies 15:08 ► The first stages of acquisition 18:18 ► Studying language acquisition: how to do it? 43:03 ► Acquisition mechanisms: problems and solutions 61:40 ► Conclusion 63:11 ► Questions This intervention was held as part of Brain Week 2017 organized by the Department of Cognitive Studies of the ENS. --------------------- 🔸 About Sharon Peperkamp: Sharon Peperkamp has been Director of the Department of Cognitive Studies at the ENS since January 2014, CNRS Research Director, Laboratory of Cognitive Sciences and Psycholinguistics, DEC ENS. 🔸 Find the interview with Sharon Peperkamp: https://www.ens.psl.eu/actualites/sha... 🔸 About Brain Week: Organized in France for 20 years, the Neuroscience Society coordinates this annual neuroscience event during which researchers and doctoral students meet the general public to introduce them to the brain and the progress made by Neuroscience Research 🔸 Cognitive Sciences: find the replay of our conferences: • Cognitive Sciences 🧠: our conferences... --------------------- Welcome to the official ENS-PSL channel! 🎓 The École normale supérieure-PSL is a research-based school that links excellent research in Literature and Science to training in the face of the scientific and social, national and international challenges of the contemporary world. It implements a world-class research and training policy, with a view to intellectual freedom and multidisciplinarity in literature and science. Personalized monitoring, a multiplicity of initiatives and commitments of normaliens and normaliennes in the social world, investment in the intellectual and scientific debates of its time are all characteristics of the École normale supérieure since its creation, and at the heart of the Université PSL of which it is a component institution. To not miss our latest videos, follow us on 👉https://www.youtube.com/c/EnsFrEcole_... You can also find us on our website or our social networks: 🖥 Website: https://www.ens.psl.eu/ 🐤 Twitter: / ens_ulm 📱 Facebook: / ecole.normale.superieure.ulm 💼 LinkedIn: / ecolenormalesuperieure 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/normalesup/...