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Study analyzes what babies hear, say on six continents

Study analyzes what babies hear, say on six continents
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Study analyzes what babies hear, say on six c

<p>Elika Bergelson,&nbsp;associate professor of psychology&nbsp;at Harvard University, studies how infants and toddlers learn language from the world around them. The developmental psychologist specifically strives to parse the various theories that account for the onset and eventual mastery of language comprehension and production. Bergelson&rsquo;s latest paper,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300671120" target=" blank">published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a>, represents a more global approach to developing and testing such theories.&nbsp;Results show that the main predictors of language development are age, clinical factors such as&nbsp;prematurity&nbsp;or dyslexia, and how much speech children receive from the world around them. In contrast to previous research, no effects were found related to gender, multilingualism, or socioeconomics.&nbsp;</p> ....

Elika Bergelson , Alejandrina Cristia , National Endowment For The Humanities , National Institutes Of Health , Method Of Research , National Science Foundation , Proceedings Of The National Academy Sciences , Harvard University , National Academy , National Institutes , National Endowment ,