Children can learn sign language before they can talk. Can they also code early? It would not have to be straight key. Iambic paddles or speaking the code would be great to. Maybe just understanding Morse code would be good.
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probably.. but im sure it will be much more confusing and difficult for the child than sign language
When learning sign language, there has to be a reference point. Primates have been taught sign language, but only after hours and hours of training with references. For example, they have been taught to push a button to get a banana. By actually getting a banana, it is a reference point. The banana is also used with a certain sign. They may not understand the word “banana”, but can associate the sign or button with it. With children, the same thing applies. In Morse Code, there are no reference points and the mastery of words is needed. Thus a child would not readily learn Morse Code because it is a series of dots and dashes, which would mean nothing to the child.
Ok, Morse code is horribly ineffecient compared to sign language, so it would not be worth the effort.
Besides that, I think infants would not be able to learn Morse code faster than spoken language as it requires stringing together signals (whether it be finger flicks, eyelid blinks, or some simple vocalization) in a timed manner that requires basically the same skills as not only spelling a word but probably closer to being able to clearly write the word on paper with a pencil, which is about as difficult I think as speaking a grammatically correct sentence.
The reason sign language works well for infants is they really only need to learn one clear signal for each idea they want to convey and don’t have to put anything into a sequence, much less have those sequenced things timed to be short or long with clear pauses between and so on.
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Learning how letters make up words comes _way_ after learning to talk or sign, which are both based on whole words or phrases.