Is There a Quantitative Shift in Language?

Daniels: Is this something special to language? Do we see this kind of quantitative shift in other domains? Yes, that's a really great question. So that depends on who you ask. I think that the sort of a default hypothesis about how babies learn is that they get better at stuff overtime and gradually as their experiences accrue. But occasionally we do see things that look like their more qualitative shifts, like what you're saying. Other folks have also talked about i so for instance, les but spelke's work proposes that babies, towards the end of the first year of life, get this insight about other people's minds. And that this might be something that sparks o