Most parents know that keeping up a patter helps stimulate their child's mental growth.
Not only are they developing fast physically, babies are learning rapidly in their first year of life too. But they may be quicker on the uptake than we realize. They may even be conscious of how sentences are strung together. The study, reported in the journal Science, suggested that children come into the world equipped with the ability to pick up languages. They first played recordings of a word pattern to the babies for a few minutes to familiarize them with it.