Dissertativa 3 - 2ª Fase - Dia 4 - IME 2008

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3.1. Differently from monolingual babies, bilingual ones can discriminate between different languages after six months old                that doesn’t mean this ability makes them better languages learners.

3.2. Whitney Weikum discovered babies’ keen eye for speech                    Laura-Ann Pelitto, who also studies visual language perception in babies, got very excited with the results.

3.3. A good eye for different languages appears especially important to bilingual babies              they need to tell them apart regularly.

3.4. The sound of the videos shown to the babies had to be turned off              the results couldn’t have concluded that visual information helps to tell languages apart.

3.5. The researches want to discover more about how bilingual babies maintain and take advantage of visual discrimination                     the studies should be carried on.