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From an interactionist view, language development is a complex process reflecting the dynamic interplay of two factors: children’s biological capacities and the social context in which they are reared. A newborn’s ability to discriminate a wide variety of speech sounds and to prefer human speech over recorded sounds—as well as to prefer the sounds and patterns of their native language over those of other languages—suggests an inborn sensitivity to language. Yet the language that an infant learns and the pace of learning are influenced by environmental factors. Let’s explore biological and contextual contributors to language.