“…bilingual babies learn that objects and events in the world have two names, and [the] flexibly [to] switch between these labels, giv[e] the brain…good exercise”
“When the brain is exposed to two languages rather than only one, the most adaptive response is to stay open longer before showing the perceptual narrowing that monolingual infants typically show at the end of the first year of life”
“ Early exposure to language also made a difference….the size of the bilingual children’s vocabulary was associated with the strength of their brain responses in discriminating languages at 10-12 months of age.”
source:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110829070559.htm
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