Bilingual infants control their languages as they listen

An exciting new study has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which has found that infants can differentiate between words in different languages by the age of 20 months.

This new breakthrough is research is very exciting and may even change the way languages are taught bilingually.

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The Authors of the study were:

1. Krista Byers-Heinlein
   • ^aDepartment of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada H4B 1R6;

2. Elizabeth Morin-Lessard
   • ^aDepartment of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada H4B 1R6;

3. Casey Lew-Williams
   • ^bDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544