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JimmyBuckets
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Learning a foreign language–before you're born
Languages are not the same as generic sounds to the human brain. Title is clickbaity but I also think it more or less communicates the point of the article
Bengalilol
9 months ago
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Languages are not the same as generic sounds but they are all made of "generic sounds" (let's call them speech contrasts).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01636...
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