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…
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 despite years of practice. A…
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 words, plus its exaggerated sounds,…
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 research by University of Alberta…
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. The Somali word for fear…
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 Childhood Development at Leipzig University…