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Psychology

How Children Learn Their First Language

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At birth, babies can distinguish all phonetic sounds across all human languages, but within the first year, they lose the ability to distinguish sounds that are not used in their native language.

Why this is interesting

Every child, without formal lessons, becomes a fluent speaker of a complex language in just a few years. How do they do it?