一项新的研究显示,如果孩子长时间呆在吵闹的电视机旁或环境嘈杂的托儿中心,可能要花较多的时间来学习说话。马里兰大学语言知觉与发展实验室主任、心理学家罗谢尔·纽曼博士研究发现,婴儿无法从背景噪音中辨别口语语言,除非这些话比噪音的声音更大。纽曼博士对100名年龄为5个月大、9个月大和13个月大的婴儿进行了研究,测试了婴儿在背景环境的噪音 According to a new study, children may spend more time learning to talk if they spend prolonged periods at noisy TV sets or in nurseries at noisy places. Dr. Rochelle Newman, a psychologist and director of the Laboratory for Language Perception and Development at the University of Maryland, found that babies can not distinguish spoken language from background noise unless these words are louder than noise. Dr. Newman studied 100 infants aged 5 months, 9 months old and 13 months old and tested the infant’s background noise