Infants learn language(s) with apparent ease, and the tools of modern neuroscience are providing valuable information about the mechanisms that underlie this capacity. Noninvasive, safe brain technologies have now been proven feasible for use with children starting at birth. The past decade has produced an explosion in neuroscience research examining young children's processing of language at the phonetic, word, and sentence levels. At all levels of language, the neural signatures of learning can be documented at remarkably early points in development. Individual continuity in linguistic development from infants' earliest responses to phonemes is reflected in infants' language abilities in the second and third year of life, a finding with theoretical and clinical implications. Developmental neuroscience studies using language are beginning to answer questions about the origins of humans' language faculty.

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语言习得的神经基础。

婴儿很容易学习语言，现代神经科学的工具正在为这种能力的基础机制提供有价值的信息。现已证明，无创，安全的大脑技术可用于从出生开始的儿童。在过去的十年中，神经科学研究领域出现了爆炸式增长，研究了幼儿在语音，单词和句子水平上对语言的处理情况。在所有语言水平上，学习的神经特征都可以在发展的显着早期记录下来。从婴儿对音素的最早反应开始的语言发展中的个体连续性，反映在婴儿第二，第三年的语言能力上，这一发现具有理论和临床意义。