From the University of Washington press release: Used in virtually all of the world’s languages, parentese is a speaking style that draws baby’s attention. Parents adopt its simple grammar and… Read more »
From the University of Alberta press release: Bilingual children use as many words as monolingual children when telling a story, and demonstrate high levels of cognitive flexibility, according to new… Read more »
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill press release: Scientists found that emotions have different meanings across 2,474 spoken languages, but that there are universal sources of structure…. Read more »
From the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology press release: How did the almost 6000 languages of the world come into being? Researchers from the Leipzig Research Centre for Early… Read more »
From the University of Rochester press release: Language research has documented that people tend to draw inferences about speakers based on how they talk. These often implicit inferences can occur… Read more »
From the University of California – San Francisco press release: Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The… Read more »
From the Society for Consumer Psychology press release: Financial transactions between people who speak different native languages are more common than ever with more than one in five Americans speaking… Read more »
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the… Read more »
From the Michigan State University press release: Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue Michigan State University researchers who found preschool teachers… Read more »
From the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus press release: Reading in the presence of a pooch may be the page-turning motivation young children need, suggests a UBC researcher. Camille… Read more »
