Two-year-olds anticipate turn switches, tracking 'you' and question word order

Two-year-olds anticipate turn switches, tracking 'you' and question word order

Two-year-olds already have a surprisingly good sense of when it is someone's turn to speak. This is shown by new research conducted by linguist Imme Lammertink from the Baby & Child Research Centre at Radboud University, together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute and the University of Chicago. That's impressive, because it requires detailed knowledge of language and sentence structure—skills we know children do not fully possess at t…