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# Babies decide what words to learn
- URL: https://jasontucker.blog/babies-decide-what-words-to-learn/
- Published: 2006-03-23T15:19:54.000Z
- Updated: 2006-03-23T15:19:54.000Z
- Author: Jason Tucker
- Tags: #wordpress

Infants grasp the names of objects that interest them first, scientists say

Like teenagers, babies don’t much care what their parents say.

Though they are learning words at 10 months old, infants tend to grasp the names of objects that interest them rather than whatever the speaker thinks is important, a new study has found.

[And they do it quickly.](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11961663/from/RSS/?ref=jasontucker.blog)