From CSUN
Adults appear to have vestigial memories of language that was spoken to and around them as infants and this knowledge can be reawakened and prove advantageous when they seek to master a seemingly new tongue when they're grownups, say researchers, based on new studies of Koreans adopted in the United States before the age of 1. Based on controlled studies of the adoptees in comparison to subjects with no exposure or familiarity to the language, the adoptees scored higher on tests and had a clear advantage in correctly identifying key building block sounds of Korean. More research soon will be under way to let experts know better how and why the early language exposure gets retained and how it might or might be beneficial to people as they mature and seek to re-learn and master a new tongue.
Adults, exposed to tongues as infants, found to tap this info in re-learning a language
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