Babies exposed to sign-language learn to “babble” in sign

“You see bite-sized nuggets of sign on the hands,” says psychologist Laura Ann Petitto of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire – much as vocally babbling babies say ‘ga’ or ‘ba’. Hand babbling in hearing babies shows that the brain’s language-learning mechanisms are “not just for talking”, Petitto says.

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