A little girl in a pair of pale pink corduroy dungarees at a London play centre is trying valiantly to get her mother to read ...

July 2 (UPI) --Children are remarkably efficient language learners -- they absorb new words, sentence structures and syntax much faster than teenagers and adults. But why? While most studies probing ...

The FINANCIAL — new study using MRI has revealed structural brain changes in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), a common but under-recognised difficulty in language learning.

Children who grow up speaking two languages develop strengths that shape the way they learn and connect with others. Bilingualism is often seen only as a practical skill for communication, but ...

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary Audrey-Ann Deneault receives funding ...

The songbird is among the classical species studied as a model for understanding the neurobiology of language. It uses song and vocalization to communicate information for its survival. The songbird’s ...

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

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Michelle White received funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. South Africa is a linguistically and culturally diverse country. There are 11 official languages and several ...