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Researchers say language learning begins in the womb</h1><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border-width:1px 0px;border-top-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-top-color:rgb(211,211,211);border-bottom-color:rgb(211,211,211);font-weight:normal;font-size:32px;line-height:32px;font-family:'PT Serif',serif;color:black">
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<span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">When Dr. Raul Artal, director of obstetrics at St. Mary’s Health Center, counseled his own pregnant daughter last year, he told her to play music to soothe her gestating baby.</span></div>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;font-family:inherit">Now a new study shows that Artal’s infant grandson may have learned language skills — in addition to his mother’s taste in music — during his time in the womb.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;font-family:inherit">The study out of Tacoma, Wash., and Stockholm, Sweden, shows that during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy, babies glean language information from their mothers. The findings mark one of the first times scientists have seen evidence that language learning begins in utero.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;font-family:inherit"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:inherit">Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/researchers-say-language-learning-begins-in-the-womb/article_0006fa34-e03e-5c15-8ff5-3ea4016d344c.html">http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/researchers-say-language-learning-begins-in-the-womb/article_0006fa34-e03e-5c15-8ff5-3ea4016d344c.html</a></div>
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