From the University of Connecticut press release: Gesturing with the hands while speaking is a common human behavior, but no one knows why we do it. Now, a group of… Read more »
From the Frontiers press release: Children have an insatiable appetite to understand why things are the way they are, leading to their apt description as “little scientists.” While researchers have… Read more »
From the Penn State press release: In uncertain times, supporting your friends and family can help them make it through. But your comforting words can have different effects based on… Read more »
From the Universitat Pompeu Fabra – Barcelona press release: Adults talk to babies differently from how we would speak to other adults. Compared to how adults speak, speech directed at… Read more »
From the University of Münster press release: More and more, people are using internet forums as first place to look for information on health issues. However, the scientific medical information… Read more »
From the CNRS press release: Even before uttering their first words, babies master the grammar basics of their mother tongue. Thus eight-month-old French infants can distinguish function words, or functors… Read more »
From the Anglia Ruskin University press release: Babies born into bilingual homes change the focus of their attention more quickly and more frequently than babies in homes where only one… Read more »
From the Linguistic Society of America press release: A new study exposes the fallacy of relying on pronunciation as a measure of linguistic proficiency. The study, ‘Revisiting phonetic integration in… Read more »
From the York University press release: A study by York University psychology researchers provides new evidence that bilingualism can delay symptoms of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form… Read more »
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München press release: Learners of foreign languages can hear the errors in pronunciation that fellow learners tend to make, but continue to fall foul of them themselves… Read more »
