‘Infants can link ethnicity with language’
A study has found that children as young as 11-month-olds can learn to associate the language they hear with ethnicity.
Published in the journal Developmental Psychobiology, the research found that infants looked at faces of Asian descendents rather than at those who looked Caucasian when listening the Cantonese language versus English.
"Our findings suggest that by 11 months, infants start making connections between languages and ethnicities based on the individuals they encounter in their environments," said Lillian May, professor at the University of British Columbia in Canada.
"In learning about language, infants are doing more than picking up sounds and sentences, they also learn about the speakers of language," she added.
The research was done in Vancouver, Canada where approximately nine per cent of the population can speak Cantonese.
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