What Babies Know About Languages and Why We Should Care

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         Young(2011) reports about language learning preference in his research “What Babies 

Know About Languages and Why We Should Care”. He explained that babies are more 

potential to learning languages as well as prejudice and preferences. 

         The author claimed that most of us can easily distinguish between languages.Moreover 

he confirmed that adults cannot differ languages such as English and French with only visual 

clues while infants in their few month age easily complete this. Yong(2011) and his 

colleagues from the University of British Columbia did experiment which illustrate his 

statement. As a result, research illustrated that babies can easily distinguish French and 

English by movement of lips. In addition to this, Yong(2011) take another research with