We have been exploring the enigma of language—its power in helping us understand one another, and the mischief caused by misinterpretations. Consider again this excerpt of a letter Wilbur Wright sent ...

Research by the Concordia Infant Research Lab finds that toddlers raised in bilingual or multilingual homes show no negative ...

According to a recent study, toddlers who frequently engage with screens may face setbacks in their language development. Toddlers aged 17 to 30 months spend nearly two hours daily watching videos, ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

A month before they are born, fetuses carried by American mothers-to-be can distinguish between someone speaking to them in English and Japanese. Using non-invasive sensing technology from the ...

Use of parentese demonstrated the increase in children's later language skills as well as conversational abilities. Used in virtually all of the world's languages, parentese is a speaking style that ...

Normal and abnormal language development depends to a great degree on the nature of the infant-mother relationship. The author advances his concepts as well as those of others with respect to several ...

Speech and language disorders affect millions of people in the United States. A new LSU Health Sciences Center bird study has identified two tiny molecules as potential regulators of a gene whose ...