Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and rules from the world around them. What makes this achievement even more ...

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 way Danes speak makes it much harder for Danish children to learn the language. Fabio Trecca, CC BY-ND A visual depiction of the words for ‘smoked trout’ spoken out loud in Danish (top) and ...

Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but from the ...

The UC Davis MIND Institute will host Dr. Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek for its ongoing Distinguished Lecturer Series today. Dr. Hirsh-Pasek is the author of a dozen books on learning and language acquisition.

My 3-year-old has been playing in her room by herself for an hour. I’m beginning to worry she is up to no good: Is she “decorating” her walls with a Sharpie or perhaps systematically pulling out tufts ...

The FrancoNetwork itself has become a local resource as it serves as an internship site for students from the French Department at West Chester University.

A new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders suggests that the ability to comprehend complex ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Many of us wish we could learn another language. It seems young kids have no problem picking up a second or third language but for adults, that changes. At the Star of the North ...

Researchers describe a parser that learns through observation to more closely mimic a child's language-acquisition process, which could greatly extend the parser's capabilities. Children learn ...