From the University of Liverpool press release: Newborn babies are born with the innate skills needed to pick out words from language, a new study published in Developmental Science reveals. Before infants can learn words, they must…
From the American Psychological Association press release: Children tend to prefer to be friends with other children who speak with the same local accent as they have, even if they grow up in a diverse…
From the Aarhus University press release: We often take for granted that children with ASD have difficulties with language and communication, generally learn to speak later and do not use language in fully appropriate ways.…
From the University of Göttingen press release: Many objects and people in everyday life have an emotional meaning. A pair of wool socks, for example, has an emotional value if it was the last thing…
From the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics press release: The early focus on larger units may have positive effects, and explain why young children are so good at learning certain areas of grammar, say scientists…
From the University of Bath press release: “I learn,” “you learn,” “she learns,” “they learn,” yet, according to a surprising new linguistic study, in countries where the dominant language allows personal pronouns such as ‘I’…
From the University of Maryland press release: You’re walking along a busy city street. All around you are the sounds of subway trains, traffic, and music coming from storefronts. Suddenly, you realize one of the…
From the University of Alberta press release: Upchuck, bubby, boff, wriggly, yaps, giggle, cooch, guffaw, puffball, and jiggly: the top 10 funniest words in the English language, according to a new study by University of…
From the University of Washington press release: When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it’s not just how much parents say, but how they say it. Speaking directly to the baby with a…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Human language follows certain regularities. For instance, a plural noun must be accompanied by a plural verb, as in the following sentence:…