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A study published in the journal PNAS highlights the impact of overhearing-based learning on language development in infants who are rarely spoken to directly. Tseltal mother carrying a nine-month-old ...

Babies can recognize combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language. Assessments in 11-12 month-olds show that ...

Infants are listening and learning their first words as young as 10 months, but they are only learning the words for objects that are of interest to them, not for objects of interest to the speaker, ...

Before babies say their first word, their brains are already learning language. New research shows how early word ...

WEST CHESTER, Ohio (WKRC) - Growing research shows the benefits of infants learning sign language. Infants and toddlers at The Learning Experience in West Chester are using basic signs like 'hungry,' ...

When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

Psychology researchers provide a fresh perspective on how infants connect names with objects, a critical skill for language development. A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with ...

In her 35 years as a psychologist, NTNU researcher Audrey van der Meer has studied everything from baby swimming to what ...

At the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, a robotic arm reaches out, grasps a red block, and moves it to ...

Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language. Assessments in 11-12 month-olds show that ...