One of our unique traits as human beings is the complexity of our communication. The forms and processes of communication vary between the different cultures and societies that make up our species, but our recognition and use of the spoken word is arguably the most important. Once the skill is learned, language is an important tool in one's life until the day that they die. But when do those early building blocks of language start to take hold? To get a better understanding of the familiarization of word sounds in 11 month olds, five experiments were conducted by Daniel Swingley of the Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, and The Max-Planke-Institute, The Netherlands.
The five experiments were actually 3 different experiments, with two of the experiments being broken down into two different test. In the first experiment, the subjects were tested to see if they preferred familiar words over unfamiliar words, and this was used as a base for the other two......
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