Children understand familiar voices better than those of strangers

Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 03:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Familiar voices can improve spoken language processing among school-age children, according to a study. However, the advantage of hearing a familiar voice only helps children to process and understand words they already know well, not new words that aren’t in their vocabularies.

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