Bilingual babies: The roots of bilingualism in newborns

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 09:01 in Psychology & Sociology

It may not be obvious, but hearing two languages regularly during pregnancy puts infants on the road to bilingualism by birth. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, infants born to bilingual mothers (who spoke both languages regularly during pregnancy) exhibit different language preferences than infants born to mothers speaking only one language...

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