Babies in the Womb Begin Learning Language from Their Mothers

Last updated on: January 11, 2013 at 11:00 am by Joe Carter

Babies in the Womb Begin Learning Language from Their Mothers 2013-01-06T03:37:38+00:00 Joe Carter

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Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered:

Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks of gestational age, and the new study shows that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy and at birth can demonstrate what they’ve heard.

“The mother has first dibs on influencing the child’s brain,” said Patricia Kuhl, co-author and co-director of the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. “The vowel sounds in her speech are the loudest units and the fetus locks onto them.”

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