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Science 13 December 1996:
Vol. 274. no. 5294, pp. 1849 - 1850
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5294.1849
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Perspectives

Elizabeth Bates, Jeffrey Elman

Infants can learn more and earlier than we thought. A new result in this week's issue [Saffran et al. ( p. 1926)] reports that a surprisingly brief exposure to nonsense syllables can fuel the absorption of a sophisticated understanding of their use. Bates and Elman discuss these results in the context of the ongoing debate about whether and how language is a learned ability.

The authors are in the Departments of Cognitive Science and Psychology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093, USA. E-mail: bates{at}cr1.ucsd.edu

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