To confirm this result, the researchers also looked at characteristics such as each participant's birthweight, his mother's age when she gave birth, the mother's level of education and her marital status, all of which differ, on average, between the poor and the middle classes.

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On this occasion, she stressed the importance of multilingualism for maintaining cultural diversity and supporting early education in mother tongue language.

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