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Babies spot languages just by watching

Mouth shapes are enough to distinguish one language from another.

Even before they begin to speak themselves, a young baby can tell when you're speaking a different language just by looking at your face.

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As it is proved that brain is constituted by billions of cells & constantly needs motivation to stimulate the cells. It is also seen that babies are good at lip reading & understands most of the words by looking at what others talk. They get excited & interested when someone talks & curious enough to know what others say. So its the brain that stimulates the babies to learn new things rather than being monotonous.But it is still a question mark how many of the brain cells are stimulated at young age....

Posted by: Shanthi Sankaralingam | May 28, 2007 09:12 AM

I'd like to know how to explain a person like me who easily distinguishes phonemes never heard in childhood. Perhaps it's related to my perfect pitch.

Posted by: Chuck Coleman | May 29, 2007 05:10 PM

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