How many words does a baby hear
Words herd by a baby
By the time a baby is 10 months old, he or she typically will have heard about a million sentences and many millions more words.
Behind the baby ’s gurgles and blinks and chuckles and burps, an amazing change is occurring virtually unseen. A little brain is whirring, picking out, processing and sorting out sounds.
It may not be put on display for months to come, but the child is already well on the way to part of its birthright as a human being, with the ability to communicate with richness and nuance.
Read Heather LaRoi’s full article Baby words
I think babies do not learn a language faster than adults because adults can think in abstractions, therefore learn more efficiently. However, for sure a baby’s brain is wired to absorb all kinds of tones and frequencies of sound and than reproduce and interpret these sounds more easily.
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