# Infants' advances in speech processing play role in language-cognition link

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**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/infants-advances-in-speech-processing-play-role-in-language-cognition-link/2007 "2019-03-13T21:46:40Z")\
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> **[Infants' advances in speech processing play role in language-cognition link](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190313160820.htm)**
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> A new study provides the first evidence that infants' increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds of their native language sets constraints on the range of human languages they will link to cognition.

  
A new study provides the first evidence that infants’ increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds of their native language sets constraints on the range of human languages they will link to cognition.