By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:35 BST, 13 May 2019 | Updated: 23:35 BST, 13 May 2019
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The key to helping your child learn new words may be finding a good study buddy.
While children are known to pick up speech patterns learned from their family, a new study has found that they learn best from other kids.
Researchers say this may be because they’re more attuned to voices that sound like their own.
The researchers say children may be more adept at picking up the speech patterns of their peers. ‘Sensitivity to talker properties is found to be related to speech processing and language development,’ Wang said. Stock image
‘Much of what we know about the world is learned from other people,’ said Yuanyuan Wang, from Ohio State University. ‘This is especially true for children.’
In the study, set to be presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, researchers from OSU and Purdue University set up two experiments to determine how 2-year-olds are influenced by the speech of people around them.
In one scenario, the kids were show side-by-side videos of two speakers reciting a nursery rhyme while listening to speech that matched either the
