Newborns with bilingual mothers may be more sensitive to speech frequencies Cavan Images/Alamy
Babies born to bilingual mothers who were exposed to two languages in the uterus exhibit different brain responses to speech-like sounds at just a few days old compared with those born to monolingual mothers, further suggesting the influence of prenatal experiences on language acquisition.
Newborns have a preference for listening to speech over non-speech sounds and can distinguish between different languages based on their rhythms. Previous research has shown that 4-month-old babies living in bilingual homes have distinct patterns of…
