首页
登录
职称英语
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critic
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critic
游客
2025-04-08
24
管理
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 the language 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 he knows his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar.
Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity of speaking. 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 analyze, 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. [br] Compared with the brain of the monkey, human’s brain is a complex system which enables a child______.
选项
A、to be born with the capacity of singing
B、to see things more clearly than animals
C、to connect the sight and feel with the sound word
D、to run faster than animals
答案
C
解析
细节事实题。根据题干关键词monkey定位到原文第五段第二句。原句中的to connect the sightand feel与选项C对应。故答案为C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4031595.html
相关试题推荐
Mostnewwordsaremadeupfromother,earlierwords;language-makingisac
Mostnewwordsaremadeupfromother,earlierwords;language-makingisac
Histheories,thoughcriticizedbyeconomistsofmoreorthodoxbent,havehaden
Todaythiscityisahighlyskilledsocietywithouttheurbansprawlandruralp
Humanbeingsaresuperiortoanimals______theycanuselanguageasatooltoc
Islanguage,likefood,abasichumanneedwithoutwhichachildatacritic
Islanguage,likefood,abasichumanneedwithoutwhichachildatacritic
Ourpresentgenerationofculturalcritics,arrivingaftertheassaultofpo
Ourpresentgenerationofculturalcritics,arrivingaftertheassaultofpo
Hotelsandrestaurantsarean______partofthecity;withoutthemthecity’sto
随机试题
Countlessexamplesoneducationfailurereinforcedthecognitionthatthereisf
Evidencecameup______specificsoundsarerecognizedbybabiesasyoungas6mo
Asresearcherslearnmoreabouthowchildren’sintelligencedevelops,theya
早期诊断宫颈癌采用以下哪一项A.子宫颈刮片细胞学检查 B.阴道镜检查 C.宫
患者女,64岁,乏力、腹胀、厌食2年,查体:肝病面容,巩膜轻度黄染,结膜苍白,胸
个家庭由于某种原因调换了一个孩子,请确定调换的两个孩子是()。 A.1
患者男性,70岁,高血压,-直用胍乙啶50mg/d维持治疗,因丧失亲人受刺激得抑
1949年10月1日,中华人民共和国成立。当时一些报刊评论说:“中国人民站起来了
下列各项经济业务中,无法通过试算平衡发现错误的有()。A.漏记某项经济业务
关于金黄色葡萄球菌食物中毒的说法正确的是A.只有很少量金黄色葡萄球菌菌株可产生肠
最新回复
(
0
)