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Best way for a baby to learn a language
In the 1990s many ambitious parents would play language tapes to their children. However, the result after a decade of such attempts to transform their babies into polyglots and baby Einstein’s unfortunately did not prove successful. Why? Babies and small children need concrete real people [...]

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Children and language learning
To learn a language is to learn a set of all-purpose rules that can be used in an infinite number of ways. A new study shows that by the age of seven months, human infants are on the lookout for abstract rules – and that they know the best place to look [...]

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