Baby talk” gets a bad rap, but it’s actually one of the most powerful tools for helping children learn language.

Even the smartest machines can't match young minds at language learning. Researchers share new findings on how children stay ahead of AI—and why it matters. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Children acquire language through multisensory, interactive experiences that no machine can yet replicate. They connect words to touch, sight, sound, and emotion, building grammar and vocabulary ...

As young children, how do we build our vocabulary? Even by age 1, many infants seem to think that if they hear a new word, it means something different from the words they already know. But why they ...

University of Iowa researchers discovered human predecessors, previously thought to not be verbal, have parts of human DNA ...

In an attempt to decipher how children acquire language, the recently founded Brown Language and Thought Lab is exploring how people form thoughts and linguistic expression from infancy to adulthood. ...

After receiving evidence-based early interventions, roughly two-thirds of non-speaking kids with autism speak single words, and approximately half develop more complex language, according to a new ...

The pandemic means many children will have spent the best part of a year interacting much less than normal with teachers, friends and family. One of the big questions is how this will have changed the ...

Even the smartest machines can’t match young minds at language learning. Researchers share new findings on how children stay ahead of AI - and why it matters. If a human learned language at the same ...