SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Babies are highly attuned to communication and motivated to interact -- and they're great listeners, U.S. researchers say.
Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame say during the first year of life, when babies spend much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support the process of word-learning that occurs between the ages of about 18 months and 2 years.