首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judgin
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judgin
admin
2015-01-15
43
问题
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.
Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the right time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.
Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple commands; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern "toy-bear". And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyse, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways.
But speech has to be induced, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language.
What is exceptionally remarkable about a child is that______.
选项
A、he is born with the capacity to speak
B、he has a brain more complex than an animal’s
C、he can produce his own sentences
D、he owes his speech ability to good nursing
答案
C
解析
从第5段最后一句可以得出答案。文章第5段最后一句话指出:“更令人难以置信的是,婴儿从其周围杂乱的声音中识别语言顺序的能力,以及分析和按新的方式组合与重新组合语言要素的能力。”C项正好与之一致。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/WShi777K
0
在职申硕(同等学力)英语
相关试题推荐
Youmayneverexperienceanearthquakeoravolcaniceruptioninyourlife,butyouwill______changesintheland.
Musiccomesinmanyforms;mostcountrieshaveastyleoftheirown.【C1】______theturnofthecenturywhenjazz(爵士乐)wasborn,Am
Andreahadneverseenanoldladyhitchhiking(搭车)before.However,theweatherandthecomingdarknessmadeherfeelsorryfor
Thesentence"mostofthebestthingshavealreadybeenlocated"couldmean______.Thebesttitleofthispassagecanbe______.
Thehugegrowthofglobal"ecotourism"industryisbecominganincreasingconcernforconservationistswithmountingevidenceth
EvenbeforeHistorianJosephEllisbecameabest-sellingauthor,hewasfamousforhisvividlectures.Inhispopularcoursesat
AleadingBritishscholarhasproposedtranslatingShakespeareintocontemporaryEnglish______youngaudienceswhoareconfused
Wefindthatbrightchildrenarerarelyheldbackbymixed-abilityteaching.Onthecontrary,boththeirknowledgeandexperienc
Inrecentyearstherehasbeenanincreasingnumberoflargeoilspills.Thesespills,someofwhichhaveoccurreddirectlyatt
(Inspiteof)theever-increasingexploitationofnaturalresources,(that)hasnowreacheddangerousproportion,(little)hasb
随机试题
Iwaitedforhimhalfanhour,buthenever______.
哪项不是生理性黄疸()
用治寒凝血瘀,月经不调,少腹冷痛,当选的性味是
当变配电所中由于故障发生频率缺额时,应由()断开一部分次要负荷。
关于进口设备运输保险,以下说法正确的是( )。
不能用于比较20岁以上不同年龄者智力水平的指标是()。(2004年12月三级真题)
改革开放以来,中国农学会_________“献身、创新、求实、协作”的宗旨,始终不渝地坚持以推动农业科技进步、促进农村发展为己任,大力开展学术交流和科技普及,积极_________和举荐人才,为提高广大农民科技素质、加快农业科技进步作出了重要贡献。依次填
注意事项1.申论考试是对考生阅读理解能力、归纳概括能力、分析综合能力、提出和解决问题能力、文字表达能力的测试。2.参考时限:阅读资料30分钟,作答90分钟。3.仔细阅读给定资料,按照后面提出的“申论要求”作答。给定资
“智者派”(智者)【2012年-福建师大/重庆师大】【2013年-河南师大】【2014年-浙江师大】【2015年-山东师大】
Thecommitteewasaskedtorenderareportonthehousingsituation.
最新回复
(
0
)