A study that questioned earlier findings
Infants who are rarely spoken to nevertheless understand many words
Ruthe Foushee, Mahesh Srinivasan · 2024 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Children
- Babies in a Tseltal-speaking community (number not checked yet)
- Where
- A Tseltal-speaking community in southern Mexico
- Ages
- Not checked yet
- How
- Researchers tracked where babies looked when words were said
- What it found
- Babies who are rarely spoken to directly, but hear a lot of talk around them, still understood common words, as US babies do.
- Limits
- One community. We read the summary, not yet the full paper.