Eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors--e.g. articles (the), personal pronouns (she), or prepositions (on)--from content words--e.g. nouns (rainbow), verbs (to drive), or adjectives (green), revealed study.

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Eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors--e.g. articles (the), personal pronouns (she), or prepositions (on), from content words, e.g. nouns (rainbow), verbs (to drive), or adjectives (green).
The young participants quickly adapted to new content words but showed little interest for newly introduced functors--as though already aware there were only a limited number of prepositions, determiners, and other words in this category.
Babies' preferences were evaluated by observing how long they looked at visual displays associated with the grammar words. This study appears in Current Biology.
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