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Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks of gestational age, and the new study shows that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy and at birth can demonstrate what they\u2019ve heard. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe mother has first dibs on influencing the child\u2019s brain,\u201d said Patricia Kuhl, co-author and co-director of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. \u201cThe vowel sounds in her speech are the loudest units and the fetus locks onto them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered: Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks of gestational age, and the new study shows that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"\nBabies in the Womb Begin Learning Language from Their Mothers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered: Sensory and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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