Learning a foreign language is not easy. However, when it comes to the mother tongue, acquisition happens very quickly and effortlessly from the first months of life. This learning is easier when the baby has a natural preference for his mother’s voice. However, as several studies have shown, an infant’s language imprint is not ingrained at birth. It would actually start long before that.
It has long been known that babies hear their first sounds in their mother’s womb. Excited by these sound cues, they will already be able to recognize the sounds and subtle rhythms of their native language. But how does this prenatal experience set the stage for learning? What effect does it have on the developing brain? Little is known about this. By studying the neural activity of newborns, the team led…
Source: Le Figaro
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