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An Infant’s Refined Tongue

ScienceNOW:

Your baby’s language skills may surprise you. Before they speak—before they even crawl—infants can distinguish between two languages they’ve never heard before just by looking at the face of a speaker. And if they’re raised in a bilingual household, they retain this ability for a long time, according to research presented here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW).

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