Uncover how the brains of infants distinguish differences in sounds and it may become possible to correct language problems even before children start to speak, sparing them the difficulties that come ...

A new study will investigate whether noise levels in nurseries affect the language development of babies. Researchers at the ...

DENVER - You may not know it, but you took a course in linguistics as a baby. By listening to the talk around them, infants pick up sound patterns that help them understand the speech they hear, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Even moderate background noise can affect how infants learn language at an early and crucial time of their development, according to new research from Purdue University. "This ...

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 ...

Communicating with babies in infant-directed-speech is considered an essential prerequisite for successful language development of the little ones. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

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A parent interacting with a baby is a heart-warming and universal scene. The parent speaks in a high-pitched voice—known as "parentese"—as they respond positively to the baby's babbling and gestures, ...

Infant language development encompasses a remarkable period in which the foundations for later language processing and comprehension are established. During this phase, infants exhibit a high degree ...

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 ...

Co-authored by Camila Alviar, Ph.D. and Miriam Lense, Ph.D. Infants all over the world become masters of the language their community speaks within the first 3 years of life, a surprisingly short time ...