At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children ...

A new study reported that children and adolescents find intrinsic joy in learning new words. It is hoped that the motivational aspects of learning new words could be used to improve educational ...

One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...

There’s a good chance learning a new language is one of your New Year’s resolutions, unless you’re hoping Google Translate will be enough for your next international adventure. Either way, you’ll need ...

The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

Stills from the videos shown to the children with a person teaching them the names of new objects in the three experimental conditions. Credits: Joan Birulés and Mathilde Fort. A research team from ...

March 23, 2006 — -- Babies can learn new words if they are associated with objects that catch their attention, researchers at the Infant Lab at Temple University in Philadelphia have found. "They ...

How does speech from other children influence an infant’s ability to learn language? Federica Bulgarelli, assistant professor in the departments of Learning and Instruction and Psychology, has been ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...

New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This ...

Researchers at Laurentian University are reading French books to preschoolers this month to determine the best ways to teach them new words.