In Berkeley Talks episode 149, Mahesh Srinivasan, an associate professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Psychology, discusses the importance of child-directed speech in language learning, how poverty may suppress parents' speech to their children and how children learn language from overheard speech, a main form of children’s early experience with language in many cultures around the world.

This March 2022 lecture was sponsored by Science At Cal.

Read a transcript and listen to the episode on Berkeley News.

Music by Blue Dot Sessions.

Photo by Esteban Benites via Unsplash.

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