A child’s first words mark a big milestone in life, and a topic of great curiosity for science. Now researchers have determined that these early stabs at verbal language are informed by what a baby ...

Psychologists have shown that a baby's most likely first words are based upon their visual experience, laying the foundation for a new theory of infant language learning. Indiana University ...

From our very first years, we are intrinsically motivated to learn new words and their meanings. First language acquisition occurs within a permanent emotional interaction between parents and children ...

My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...

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Felicity Meakins receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Aboriginal Benefits Account. Acknowledging Australia’s traditional owners of country and paying respect to Indigenous ...

“The lexicon of a foreign language is like a map of a country you’ve never been to,” says psychologist Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. While travelers tend to think that seeing ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (KATC) - A Louisiana mother feels like she’s living in a dream as her baby is getting a new start thanks to receiving a heart transplant. Last year, doctors told Christy Jolivette that ...