LouAnn Gerken Researching How Babies Learn Language

Tucson - Researchers at the University of Arizona are pioneering methods to find out how we learn language. They received a grant of nearly $400,000 from the National Science Foundation.
They're conducting studies on babies from 4 to 20 months-old and the findings might change the way we expose kids to new information.
"We're measuring how long he's looking at each of these lights, based upon his head turns," says Sara Knight Manager of the Tweety Language Development Lab.
Rachael Suddarth brought her son Eli to the lab to participate in the study.
"I think it's really important that we know how the language learning works in kids and it's worth my time to be able to help...