Science Daily – Staff Writer
As children learn more about the world through the people around them, the diversity in languages presents them with a unique opportunity for better social-cognitive learning.
Past research has shown that children who grew up bilingual have heightened sensitivities to communicative cues and are more adept at understanding a speaker’s context and intent. An area that had yet to be explored was the role of bilingualism in a child’s ability to assess communicative cues along with the speaker’s context and intent.