Why are children so good at learning languages?

Friday, February 1, 2019 - 10:22 in Psychology & Sociology

When it comes to learning languages small children beat machines hands down, even though they are exposed to only a fraction of the vocabulary fed into algorithms. So what exactly makes them so good? In 2003, an influential study showed that children from rich families were exposed to around 30 million more words before the age of […]

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