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Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language
December 4, 2023
Phonetic information — the smallest sound elements of speech — may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old — which researchers say is too late to form the foundation of language. Instead, babies learn from rhythmic information — the changing emphasis of syllables in speech — which unlike phonetic information, can be heard in the womb.
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