Growing evidence suggests language learning begins before we are born Shutterstock/Natalia Deriabina
Two-week-old babies seem able to distinguish the rhythm and other sounds of a nursery rhyme they heard in the uterus from an unfamiliar one. The extent to which they can do this appears to predict their language development, which could open up a new way of identifying babies at risk of language-related conditions in later life.
Language learning is thought to begin before birth, with research showing newborns can distinguish their mother’s voice from a stranger’s and can tell their native…
