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How Bilingual Babies Pick Their First Words
When a baby grows up hearing English from parents at home and Hebrew from the surrounding community, which language produces the first words? This episode unpacks the surprising science of early vocabulary acquisition, from the comprehension-production gap to the role of joint attention. We explore why first words almost always come from the language of primary attachment figures, how simultaneous bilinguals build one fused lexical system before separating languages around age three, and what "mother tongue" actually means when a child develops native command of two languages with different…
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