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Saturday 11 April 2015

Language Development in Newborns

A super interesting Psychology fact I learnt today on language development in new borns and infants!

“Newborns are biologically capable of hearing the entire range of phonemes in all languages worldwide. But as babies grow and are more exposed to a particular language, they only notice the linguistic distinctions that are meaningful in that environment. Specialization in one language increases while the potential hear other language sounds is lost.”
"Infants are equipped for language even before birth, partly due to brain readiness, and partly because of auditory experiences in the uterus."
Now imagine if a baby was exposed to the words of Allah and the Arabic language from the time it was in its mother womb... by the time it reaches the age of 5 or 6, it will have absorbed and learnt the language with much more ease, than anyone who learns it at an older age. It will be *specialised* in the language that the Qur'an was revealed in. Too awesome.


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