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The roots of grammar: New study shows children innately prepared to learn language
06-05-2007 · EurekAlert!A new study shows that by the age of seven months, human infants are able to learn abstract grammar-like rules from sequences of syllables -- and that they know the best place to look for such abstractions is in human speech.
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