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Remember BF Skinner's glass box? My idea is much less austere, and has good consequences. In order to foster brilliant children, as soon as "Bobby" is born, his parents place him in the Language Room: a play room with many hidden speakers. They slip in the CD "MetaWorld" a recording of 1,000 of the
world's languages, where the speakers speak conversation, and also simply vocabulary. This is linked to a projector where pictures/situations match to the words being heard. In no time, young Bobby is multilingual.
Upgrades come with even more languages.
Speech Development
http://www.nancydev...echDevelopment.html
"Do not rely on television to teach your children language. Besides not teaching good language skills, it can prevent children from ever learning to use language correctly." If television doesn't work, then this probably won't either. [kropotkin, Oct 04 2004]
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When he begins talking the parents are going to have a hard time keeping up..... |
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Would it come with 3 yr supply of Purrina Rat Chow? |
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We have done this on a limited scale with our children. There are five or six languages regularly spoken at our home (currently English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai and Afrikaans) so there is a lot of scope to pick up smatterings of other languages. Previously we have had Maori, Gaelic, Polish, French, Russian, Mandarin and Hungarian spoken by various staff members. |
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Both of our children are well ahead of their peers in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar, so something went right. |
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The real question, reensure, is: is your dislike of Skinner genetic or enviromental? |
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Bobby, you've shown me you can talk German; Where's Walden, too? |
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In seriousness, this is not really a Skinner scenario. There are no conditioning reinforcers in your proposed system, nor do you appear to be trying any form of stimulus than low level conditioning. I doubt you will achieve the behaviour modification you are seeking. |
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Babies growing up in multilingual environments do indeed gain an excellent grasp of each (and achieve a skill of translation that no acquired-language translator can match), but on the other hand they also take longer to achieve proficiency in each. This holds true for trilingual too, I believe. So this kid might become the most accomplished linguist of the millennium, but he won't not start making coherent sentences until he's thirty-six. |
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As a disclaimer, this is, of course, the rule: geniuses are exceptions. Like UB's kids, probably. Hmm. When did your prodigy commence loquacity, UnaBubba? |
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Both of them began talking at about 12 months, if we count recognisable words as talking. Proper sentence structures at around 18 months. Neither of them are likely to be genii, depending upon your definition of genius, though they will likely be above the 90th percentile in many disciplines. |
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My daughter, 2 on Dec 14, began correcting herself whenever she uses an incorrect verb tense about a week before her 2nd birthday. |
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Best topical sentence so far has been, "Are you going to take your medication this morning, Daddy, by any chance?" She was unaware I had taken my tablets at 5am, before I went out to play golf, and that I was simply taking blood pressure and blood sugar readings at the breakfast table, at 8:30am. She's disturbingly observant. |
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Her brother, 3 last October, uses sentences like, "Are you not the babysitter we had here late last year?" or "That yard looks a bit spartan, doesn't it, Dad?". He can make simple sentences in Spanish and German. |
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It spooks most people when either of them decide to have a conversation with someone. |
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At least I won't have to spend much on speech therapy. |
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wow, I only have two laguages: English, and bad English. My kid may be screwed. :( |
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Well that's one way to raise children to be sure... (!) |
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I'm not convinced that this would work. Language acquisition doesn't come from sitting passively and listening to speech. Even television isn't good for encouraging development of speech powers. Learning languages requires conversation and interaction with actual human beings. With this idea it's an open question whether you'd realise it was speech at all. |
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