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Nov. 1, 2021

Chapter Three: Language milestones and first words

Chapter Three: Language milestones and first words

In their previous episode, Elaine and Hector discussed language during pregnancy. Now they look at how babies understand and begin to form syllables into words, and gradually into sentences.

But what is a word? How do we know where a word starts or finishes? How do we learn to conjugate a verb? And how do bilingual and multilingual children develop their respective vocabularies?

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