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Female sex hormone boosts infants’ language development

BERLIN, GERMANY: The female sex hormone estradiol boosts language acquisition in two-month-old babies, said the University of Wurzburg on Friday.

Scientists from the University of Wurzburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin have made a discovery, which reveals a direct correlation between a high level of estradiol in infants at two months old and the first vocal utterances that are relevant to language acquisition.

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