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Marta Iraola Iribarren

Bilingual mums' bond with children is strong despite switching languages, study

Talking in a second language doesn’t affect neural synchrony between bilingual mothers and children, a new study has found.

The researchers analysed whether the language used between mothers and children in bilingual families affected their interactions. They compared situations where they interacted in the mother’s native language with those in which they talked in English to see if multilingualism could be a barrier to parent-child communication and bonding.

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