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Page: << Prev | 1 | 2 The researchers agreed that the study raises several important questions for future studies to answer.
"You could say that these mechanisms also support communication, so we're very interested in how these might affect parent-child interaction," Honing said.
"It would be interesting to see how languages are shaped by these processes," said Senghas. "When you have children who seem to not be picking up on language correctly, it gives us one more thing to know what typical children are like to see if something is wrong."
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SOURCES: Henkjan Honing, professor, music cognition, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Ann Senghas, Ph.D., assistant professor, psychology, Barnard College of Columbia University, New York City; Jan. 26-30, 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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