S ome people refuse to use baby talk with babies. The sing-song repetition of cute nonsense words commonly spoken by adults ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from ...

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 ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...

Researchers looked at the mechanisms involved in language learning among nine-month-olds, the youngest population known to be studied in relation to on-screen learning. Infants are more likely to ...

UA professor of psychology and linguistics LouAnn Gerken was recently awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research how babies acquire language. Gerken’s research will ...

A new study shows that parents who learn how and why to speak 'parentese' can have a direct impact on their children's vocabulary. When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it's not just how ...

Confronted with a baby—or puppy—most adults can’t stop themselves from dissolving into baby talk: “WHO’S the cutest? It’s YOU! YES it IS!” We slow down, increase our pitch by nearly an octave, and ...

We can all go on and on about the importance of learning another language. It's usually offered in grade school but then somewhere along the line doesn't become mandatory and many don't maintain what ...

We’ve all heard adults cooing to babies in “baby talk” — that high-pitched, singsong cadence we tend to slip into around infants. The overall effect of baby talk may sound unnatural, but as Princeton ...

Step aside, Furby. This experimental robot's language skills are way cooler and way more useful. In a few years, it could even help deaf and hearing children learn their first language. The device, ...