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Infants can rapidly learn words in a foreign language

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INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 32, Issue 4, Pages 476-480

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.06.003

Keywords

Infancy; Language acquisition; Word learning; Foreign language; Plasticity

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The present study used an object manipulation task to explore whether infants are able to learn words in a foreign language. French-learning 20-month-olds, who were taught new words in either English or French by a bilingual French-English speaker, Succeeded in both language conditions. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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