Your 4-Month-Old Is Already Decoding Language | Baby Science in 5 Min

Most parents think language learning starts at a baby's first word. Science says it starts months earlier and what babies understand
at just 4 months is remarkable.

In this video, Dr Eylem Altuntas (developmental psycholinguist, MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University) breaks down a real peer-reviewed study that reveals what 4-month-old babies already know about speech and what they do with that knowledge.

You will learn:
- Why babies stare at your mouth when you talk (it is not just curiosity)
- How babies connect what they hear with what they see before they speak
- What "amodal phonological abstraction" actually means for your baby
- What this means for your everyday conversations starting today

No jargon. No guilt. Just real science, made simple.

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This video is based on the following research article:

Altuntas, E., Best, C. T., Kalashnikova, M., Götz, A., & Burnham, D. (2025). Phonological feature abstraction before 6 months: Amodal recognition of place of articulation across multiple consonants. Developmental Science, 28, e13605. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13605

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ABOUT DR EYLEM ALTUNTAS
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Dr Eylem Altuntas is a developmental psycholinguist at the MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University. Her research focuses on how infants acquire language from the very first months of life.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 — What would you say to a newborn?
0:12 — The old belief about baby language
0:48 — The question that changed everything
1:15 — The experiment: training phase
2:05 — The test phase
2:55 — The finding
3:45 — What it means for you
4:35 — The takeaway

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