{"id":204824,"date":"2025-01-29T08:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/babies-learn-language-even-earlier-than-we-realized-study-reveals"},"modified":"2025-01-29T08:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:26:51","slug":"babies-learn-language-even-earlier-than-we-realized-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/babies-learn-language-even-earlier-than-we-realized-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Babies Learn Language Even Earlier Than We Realized, Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/babies-learn-language-even-earlier-than-we-realized-study-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you\u2019ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it\u2019s because they\u2019re picking up on more than just sounds \u2013 they\u2019re learning how those sounds are made.<\/p>\n<p>Our recent study, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/desc.13605\">published in <em>Developmental Science<\/em><\/a>, shows this amazing process starts as early as four months old, shaking up the old belief that babies learn these patterns only after tuning in to their native language between 6 and 12 months of age.<\/p>\n<p>It also gives us an earlier window to help children who might be at risk of speech or language delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you\u2019ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it\u2019s because they\u2019re picking up on more than just sounds \u2013 they\u2019re learning how those sounds are made. Our recent study, published in Developmental Science, shows this amazing process [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}