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Researchers have found that infants, through their daily experience with language, learn and understand the meanings of words for foods and body parts. Upending previous notions of language development in infants, children between the ages of six and nine months were shown to perceive and understand elements of the sounds of their native language. Previously, psychologists believed comprehension of words did not emerge until a child was closer to one year old. Elika Bergelson and Daniel...