How Your Baby Learns Language

Growing Up Brainy by smallTalk

Jun 23, 202100:18:33Kids & family

It’s common knowledge that learning a language is easier when you’re young, but why is that? Linguist Lynn Nichols dives into the evolution of the human brain as it pertains to language and explains the differences betwe...

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