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Support for the video deficit hypothesis comes from several lines of research. Studies of language learning have demonstrated that children aged two and older can learn vocab- ulary from television. 19 Unlike older children, however, infants and toddlers are less likely to learn from video. One experiment found that children younger than two learned vocabu- lary better from real-life experiences than from equivalent video presentations. 20 Other experimental research demonstrates that television models are less effective than live ones in preserving discrimination of foreign phonemes (speech sounds) in infants. 21 Additional support for the video deficit hypothesis comes from studies examining infants’ and toddlers’ ability to. | The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution ANALYSIS PAPER Number 20 June 2009 WHICH PATH TO PERSIA Options for a New American STRATEGy toward Iran Kenneth M. Pollack Daniel L. ByMAN Martin INDyK Suzanne MALONEy Michael E. O Hanlon Bruce Riedel The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution ANALYSIS PAPER Number 20 June 2009 WHICH PATH TO PERSIA Options for a New American STRATEGy toward Iran Kenneth M. Pollack Daniel L. ByMAN Martin INDyK Suzanne MALONEy Michael E. O Hanlon Bruce .