Infants' Recognition of Speech More Sophisticated Than Previously Known

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120717100050.htm

ScienceDaily (July 17, 2012) — The ability of infants to recognize speech is more sophisticated than previously known, researchers in New York University's Department of Psychology have found. Their study, which appears in the journal Developmental Psychology, showed that infants, as early as nine months old, could make distinctions between speech and non-speech sounds in both humans and animals.