Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become permanently confused and thus their languagedevelopment will be delayed; this concern is not documented in the literature.
Now, tests showed that there was a faster rate of forgetting among the youngest children, but most importantly it showed that the development of recall did not depend on languagedevelopment.
如今,测试显示年幼孩子的遗忘速度更快,但最重要的是,测试表明记忆的发展并不依赖于语言的发展。
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Some languagedevelopment experts have characterized child-directed speech in stages.