Image by Rajesh Balouria from PixabayThe way parents understand what their baby says even when they mispronounce or just make sounds has perplexed scientists. Often one of the first sounds they generate is 'da' which may refer to dad, a dog, a dot, or nothing at all. How does an adult listener make sense of this limited verbal repertoire? A new study from MIT and Harvard University has found that adult's understanding of conversational context and knowledge of mispronunciations that children com...

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