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, ...

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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 ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of ...

Roughly one in ten babies worldwide is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy – a birth considered preterm. These infants are ...

Preterm babies perform as well as their full-term counterparts in a developmental task linking language and cognition, a new study has found. The study, the first of its kind with preterm infants, ...

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 ...

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 ...

October 9, 2012 — Maternal depression and its treatment can change the timing of language development in infants, new research shows. Janet Werker, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, ...

A new study coming from researchers with the Society for Research in Child Development found parents' smartphone usage could impact an infant's language development. The study was completed with a ...

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound ...