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| Title | Research Links Early Exposure to Language in Babies to Easier Acquisition of the Language as Adults |
| Body | From http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20091208.135951&time=14%2043%20PST&year=2009&public=0 Research Links Early Exposure to Language in Babies to Easier Acquisition of the Language as Adults December 8, 2009 Most scientists agree that the earlier you expose a child to a language, the easier it is for that child to learn it. California State University, Northridge assistant professor of psychology Janet S. Oh wanted to take that concept a step further. She wondered whether early experience with a language - say before the age of one - can still help an adult many years later to acquire that language more easily that an individual who has not had such early exposure. "Early indications are that it does," said Oh, who published the results of her pilot study in the latest issue of the Journal of Child Language. Oh's pilot study compared 12 adults adopted from Korea by U.S. families as young children to 13 participants who had no prior exposure to Korean. "They were infants when they came to the United States so they weren't even speaking yet, and all exposure to Korean language and culture was pretty much cut off. Yet, when they started studying Korean as adults they clearly mastered learning the sounds that make up the language much easier than those who never had exposure to the language." Read the full article at http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20091208.135951&time=14%2043%20PST&year=2009&public=0 |
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