{"id":1882,"date":"2014-06-07T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2014-06-07T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T17:04:01","slug":"children-tune-into-their-parents-regardless-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/children-tune-into-their-parents-regardless-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Children tune into their parents, regardless of language"},"content":{"rendered":"
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his 17-month-old was one of 61 children who were taught to differentiate between two simple pair of syllables. With their help,, researchers concluded that monolingual children learned best with a monolingual adult, and bilingual babies learned best with a bilingual adult. (Credit: Krista Byers-Heinlein)<\/p><\/div>\n

Monolingual children and bilingual children are equally good at learning new words, as long as they hear them from people who comes from their own language environment, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers tested thirty 17-month-old French-English bilinguals\u2019 infants and thirty-one English monolinguals\u2019 infants learning two simple pair of syllables (\u2018kem\u2019 and \u2018gem\u2019) produced by an adult, bilingual or monolingual. Authors observed that monolingual children learned best with a monolingual adult, and bilingual babies learned best with a bilingual adult.<\/span><\/p>\n

Original research paper<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0June 4, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Krista Byers-Heinlein<\/a>, Concordia University, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monolingual children and bilingual children are equally good at learning new words, as long as they hear them from people who comes from their own language environment, a new study shows. Researchers tested thirty 17-month-old French-English bilinguals\u2019 infants and thirty-one English monolinguals\u2019 infants learning two simple pair of syllables (\u2018kem\u2019 and \u2018gem\u2019) produced by an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[282,1722,1677,1724,1723,849],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-education","tag-language","tag-learning","tag-linguistics","tag-parenting","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pngbase6431559b6cad6babb6.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-um","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}