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are children "born to speak? no one really knows, but new research suggests toddlers are sensitive to grammar at an astonishingly young age. according to LouAnn Gerken, an associate professor in the university of Arizona department of speech and hearing sciences, very young children respond to "grammatical morphemes" - articles loke "the" or verb inflections such as "ing" - to decide whether words are verbs or nouns, even though they themselves neglect such parts of language when first starting to talk."that's interesting for two reasons," says Gerken. first, kids don't say those things in their earliest language productions. two, grammatical morphemes are probably the most important aspects f language, signaling what a noun is or what a verb is. noun are things that have '-ing' and '-ed' after them. so if kids don't notice those things, then it would be hard for them to figure out other aspects of language. grammatical morphemes are an important anchor into language."in the first study of its kind, gerken found that two-year-olds (who didn't themselves use grammatical morphemes in their baby talk) were more likely to select the right picture when prompted with sentences containing correct morphemes. 85 percent of toddlers flawlessly to "find the dog for me" whereas the sentence "find was dog for me" and "find the dog for me", whereas the sentences "find was dog for me" and "find gub dog for me" elicited a 55 percent and 40 percent correct response rate respectively.
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