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How Do Babies Perceive Speech? – Study
A child’s development significantly involves speech and language, especially in shaping their cognitive abilities. The impact of early words can be observed from a very young age, even in infancy. Research indicates that words directing children’s attention to objects around them contribute to their categorization of the world. These findings highlight the importance of linguistic input for emotional and cognitive development. Communication between people is not merely about the exchange of words; it also aids in better understanding the surrounding world and strengthening relationships. For infants, words are not just sounds, but meaningful elements through which they learn about the reality around them. Research results show that the effects of…
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How Do Babies Acquire Knowledge?
The language learning abilities of infants are astonishing and manifest quite early. The latest research shows that babies acquire the grammatical rules of language at an incredible speed. The advancement of linguistic sciences enables us to better understand how infants respond to linguistic stimuli and how they process them. Infants’ brains are highly receptive to linguistic structures, which can be observed as early as four months of age. In studies, German infants were played Italian sentences, and EEG measurements indicated that babies can store syntactic relationships in less than fifteen minutes and can also respond to different linguistic patterns. This discovery sheds new light on the early stages of language…
