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The point of the study was to see if just a small amount of language exposure would be enough for the unborn baby to start learning it. And the answer was yes.
by Thorrez 1y ago
The point of the study was to see if just a small amount of language exposure would be enough for the unborn baby to start learning it. And the answer was yes.
For a native language, the unborn baby gets a lot of exposure. Only with a foreign language would an unborn baby get a small amount of exposure.
- Bengalilol 1y agoYes. But I’d temper the word "learning", because even the study itself doesn’t imply that. It refers to "brain responses." "Prenatal linguistic exposure shapes language brain responses at birth" <https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08594-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08594-8> By the way, it's a great research paper (as far as I can understand it), and in my opinion, the Université de Montréal summary doesn't do it justice.