Large replication fails to confirm classic infant language rule study

A ManyBabies consortium study published in Developmental Science, spanning 30 labs, 33 languages and 839 infants, failed to replicate Marcus et al.'s 1999 Science finding, casting doubt on infants' ability to abstract rules from speech.

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