Psychology & Psychiatry
Growing up in a bilingual home has lasting benefits
New research has found that growing up in a bilingual home can provide unexpected cognitive benefits later in life.
Jan 22, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Bilingual babies listen to language
Are two languages at a time too much for the mind? Caregivers and teachers should know that infants growing up bilingual have the learning capacities to make sense of the complexities of two languages just by listening. In ...
Aug 7, 2017
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Bilingual babies are better at detecting musical sounds, research shows
Exposure to multiple languages may sharpen infants' music sensitivity in the first year after birth, new research has found.
Nov 17, 2016
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Bilingual infants lip-read more than monolingual infants
New research from Northeastern developmental psychologist David J. Lewkowicz shows that infants learning more than one language do more lip-reading than infants learning a single language.
Feb 12, 2015
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Do infants judge others' language proficiency? It depends on their own, research shows
Monolingual infants expect others to understand only one language, an assumption not held by bilingual infants, a study by researchers at New York University and McGill University has found.
Jan 7, 2015
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Singaporean birth cohort study finds benefits for babies exposed to two languages
A team of investigators and clinician-scientists in Singapore and internationally have found that there are advantages associated with exposure to two languages in infancy. As part of a long-term birth cohort study of Singaporean ...
Sep 2, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Multilingual or not, infants learn words best when it sounds like home
Growing up in a multilingual home has many advantages, but many parents worry that exposure to multiple languages might delay language acquisition. New research could now lay some of these multilingual myths to rest, thanks ...
Jun 4, 2014
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