Bilingual Babies Know Their Grammar by 7 Months

From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214111606.htm

Bilingual Babies Know Their Grammar by 7 Months
February 14, 2013

Babies as young as seven months can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures, according to new research from the University of British Columbia and Université Paris Descartes.

Published February 14 in the journal Nature Communications and presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston, the study shows that infants in bilingual environments use pitch and duration cues to discriminate between languages -- such as English and Japanese -- with opposite word orders.

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