The multilingual mind! - La mente multi linguística!

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In the first year of life, babies discriminate the sounds from all of the world’s languages and they become specialists in finding the words and sounds in their own native tongue.

KATHY HIRSH-PASEK

PROFESSOR, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY;DIRECTOR, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY INFANT LANGUAGE LABORATORY

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The Multilingual mind

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