Why can babies learn more than one language?
Apr 17, 2016
Image: Irene Zaccari, CC BY-NC-ND
We know they can, now we know why. Apparently all languages on Earth can be distilled into 800 sounds. At birth, baby brains can distinguish all of them.
If babies are brought up in a monolingual household, their ability to distinguish the sound of other languages fades when they're six to twelve months old. ( Now I know why I was so bad at French)
It seems that babies from bilingual households are advantaged, rather than confused.
Longterm, they're also advantaged, showing reduced cognitive decline in old age. Read the whole article from The Conversation UK.
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