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Language skill in young pretenders
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
29 June 2006
Toddlers who blow bubbles, lick their lips and are good at 'pretend' play pick up language skills quicker than others. Psychologists at Lancaster University studied 120 children at 21 months, the age when they are learning faster than at any other time in their lives.
Toddlers who blow bubbles, lick their lips and are good at 'pretend' play pick up language skills quicker than others. Psychologists at Lancaster University studied 120 children at 21 months, the age when they are learning faster than at any other time in their lives. In one group, to assess spontaneous speech, researchers recorded what...
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