Learning a mother tongue: A universal process?

(CNRS) Specialists in language development in children have studied a traditional population in the Bolivian Amazon, the Tsimane. They show that, on average, less than one minute per hour is spent talking to children under the age of four. This is up to ten times less than for children of the same age in industrialized countries. This observation should prompt us to conduct more studies of this kind in various cultures.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news