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Babies Learn Language at Eight Months Old
Washington AP reports infants as young as eight months can hear and remember words. Johns Hopkins researcher Peter Jusczyk states reading to babies helps them learn sound patterns and word formation. The study in Science used daily story listening for ten days with later word recognition tests. Robin Chapman of UW Madison calls it important progress in language learning research.
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