From the University of Edinburgh press release: Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language. Assessments in 11-12 month-olds…
From the University of California – Los Angeles press release: It can be hard to resist lapsing into an exaggerated, singsong tone when you talk to a cute baby. And that’s with good reason. Babies…
From the Concordia University press release: Bring on Twilight. Lee Child’s Jack Reacher? Yes, please. More of James Patterson’s Alex Cross while we’re at it. And let’s finish off with revisiting the million-plus words of…
From the New York University press release: Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility, a team of neuroscientists has found. Its work offers new insights into the…
From the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston press release: The uniquely human ability to read is the cornerstone of modern civilization, yet very little is understood about the effortless ability to derive…
From the University of Miami press release: We take for granted the fact that feelings such as love, happiness, or pain are described with different words and expressions across languages. But are these differences in…
From the Lancaster University press release: How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by Lancaster University researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not, according…
From the Rice University press release: Rice University researchers have discovered a more efficient way for social media companies to keep misinformation from spreading online using probabilistic filters trained with artificial intelligence. The new approach…
From the Acoustical Society of America press release: Visual cues can change listeners’ perception of others’ accents, and people’s past exposure to varied speech can also impact their perception of accents. Ethan Kutlu, from the…