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The first year after the baby’s birth is enjoyable as the baby is learning new things everyday. Take this quiz on the baby’s first year after birth and test your knowledge about child-care.
The first year after the baby’s birth is enjoyable as the baby is learning new things everyday. Take this quiz on the baby’s first year after birth and test your knowledge about child-care.
‘Eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors--e.g. articles (the), personal pronouns (she), or prepositions (on), from content words, e.g. nouns (rainbow), verbs (to drive), or adjectives (green).’
Experiments conducted by three researchers from the Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center (CNRS/Université de Paris) with 175 eight-month-old babies, using a simple artificial language, demonstrated that these infants understood functors were more frequent and came before content words in their mother tongue (French). The young participants quickly adapted to new content words but showed little interest for newly introduced functors--as though already aware there were only a limited number of prepositions, determiners, and other words in this category.
Babies' preferences were evaluated by observing how long they looked at visual displays associated with the grammar words. This study appears in Current Biology.
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