The Center for Confident American English Communication

Psychologists at Bristol University have found that the developing brain undergoes a period of “programming” in infancy. This programming sets the stage for a life long ability to recognize sounds. Babies who hear only English are left unable to distinguish between subtly different sounds used in other languages. Babies exposed to multiple languages during their

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Although each language contains a unique set of sounds, scientists have found that babies are born with the ability to distinguish all of them. However, that ability starts to diminish before a baby’s first birthday. After that time babies start to “tune out” or ignore sounds that don’t fit into the patterns of their native

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