The Independent – Evan Bartlett
“Children who are exposed to other languages are more likely to interpret what other people really mean when they speak to them, a new study suggests. Psychologists from the University of Chicago found that not only those who were fluent in another language but those that were merely “exposed” to one in early life showed better understanding of others. The researchers, publishing their findings in Psychological Science, tested the theory by asking different sets of children – bilingual, exposed and monolingual – to move an object from an adult’s eyeline.”(more)