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How Do Infants Learn Language?

Special | 1h 29m 29sVideo has Closed Captions

Professor Jenny Saffran explains how babies learn language.

Aired 05/28/2008 | Rating TV-G

University Place

How Do Infants Learn Language?

Special | 1h 29m 29sVideo has Closed Captions

Professor Jenny Saffran explains how babies learn language.

Jenny Saffran, Professor, Department of Psychology and the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Jenny Saffran speaks about how babies are able to learn language. She explains how babies are incredible learners, soaking up enormous amounts of information in several different ways. Jenny is an investigator at the Infant Learning Lab located in the Waisman Center.

Aired 05/28/2008 | Rating TV-G

University Place is a local public television program presented by PBS Wisconsin

University Place is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

University Place

How Do Infants Learn Language?

Special | 1h 29m 29sVideo has Closed Captions

Jenny Saffran, Professor, Department of Psychology and the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Jenny Saffran speaks about how babies are able to learn language. She explains how babies are incredible learners, soaking up enormous amounts of information in several different ways. Jenny is an investigator at the Infant Learning Lab located in the Waisman Center.

Aired 05/28/2008 | Rating TV-G

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