The research student of the LSCP (see my post from Dec. 18, 2010) gave me the link to an article about research on cognitive abilities in seven-month-old infants, a study that compared monolingual and bilingual babies: Cognitive gains in seven-month-old bilingual infants In a nutshell, the article describes a series of experiments that had monolingual and […]

A few weeks ago, we received a letter from the “Laboratoire des Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistiques” asking if we would let our baby participate in a study about language acquisition. They were looking for babies between 4½ and 5½ months. Last Saturday morning we entered a cramped room on the basement level of my maternity […]