Born With a Preference for Two Languages
Newborn infants are attuned to their bilingual mothers' languages. Published on June 6, 2012 by Francois Grosjean, Ph.D. in Life as a Bilingual It has been known for some time that newborn infants with monolingual mothers have become sensitive in utero to some characteristics of the spoken language they are exposed to. Thus, when tested just after birth, they...