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Aviva Rutkin reports that “by the age of 3, children from affluent families have heard some 30 million more words than their impoverished counterparts” (29 November 2014, p 14).
If they are awake for 12 hours a day, that amounts to 38 extra words a minute, every minute. Add the words an impoverished child hears, and they could be hearing more than one word a second. That seems a very high number. Any error?
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