It is advantageous to have speakers of other languages talk to babies who are not high risks for language delay.
This is certainly one good argument for having family members who speak other languages talk to babies while they are young, to reinforce those neural tracks. This of course applies to babies who are not high risk for language delay.
I was asked in class if it would be beneficial to play language records in the presence of the child when they are babies. This would be an interesting topic for a doctoral dissertation for someone who has a baby and doesn‰t mind the background clamor.
Please let me know the results of your findings!
So what are those distinctive features that babies hear. There are books written on them. If you want to punish yourself severely for some indulgence, check one out on a Saturday evening and try to read it. In comparison, it makes a plumbing catalog seem like a romantic novel.
To give you a small flavor of what it is all about, we will limit ourselves to a discussion of just four each for vowels and consonants.