From the PLOS press release: An investigation of Twitter messages reveals new insights and tools for studying how people use stretched words, such as “duuuuude,” “heyyyyy,” or “noooooooo.” Tyler Gray and colleagues at the University…
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 UConn researchers reports in the…
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 been aware of children’s interest…
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 how you phrase them, according…
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 babies tends to have a…
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 being provided there is often…
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 — e.g. articles (the), personal…
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 language is spoken, according to…
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 bilingual borrowing’, by Shana Poplack,…
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 of dementia, making up 60…