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| | Guardian Unlimited | Life | My word, babies are just brilliant |
 | | Babies can - and do - learn words and their meanings before their first birthday. |
 | | He reports in Child Development that he asked parents of 52 nine-month-olds to use 12 board books and 48 picture cards showing keys, apples, fish and so on, in games with their babies four times a week for up to 10 minutes a time. |
 | | They were shown pairs of pictures, one of them for example a fish, while an investigator said "Fish, fish, look at the fish!" Babies that had been "trained" looked at the correct picture. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /life/dispatch/story/0,12978,1409021,00.html (186 words) |
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