Today’s Solutions: March 28, 2024

Watch your language! New research shows that babies are developing language recognition abilities while still in the womb much earlier than previously thought. The experiment studied 29 Korean-born Dutch speakers. All 29 subjects were adopted by Dutch parents at ages spanning 6 to 17 months. These adoptees were all raised as Dutch speakers having never learned their native language, and across a two-week period they were taught to identify and reproduce a series of Korean consonants. The Korean adoptees rate of learning, and ability to correctly pronounce the foreign sounds, significantly surpassed that of the control group.

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