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From http://www.3news.co.nz/ScienceTech/Story/tabid/412/articleID/88492/cat/73/Default.aspx

Exposure to sound patterns may hold key to language skills
January 27, 2009

Exposure to the sound patterns of another language, even if it is initially meaningless, could hold the key to quickly picking up a foreign tongue, says a researcher.

Victoria University PhD graduate Paul Sulzberger made his discovery while trying to find out why many students dropped out in the early days of trying to learn a new language.

Listening to a language's sound patterns was critical as it set up structures in the brain required to learn the words, he found.

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