Scientists examining the evolutionary roots of language say they've discovered chimp vocal development is not far off from humans. A study has provided evidence that young chimpanzees are capable of ...

We have been exploring the enigma of language—its power in helping us understand one another, and the mischief caused by misinterpretations. Consider again this excerpt of a letter Wilbur Wright sent ...

The human language system appears to recruit a broad network of frontal and temporal brain regions. Even though different aspects of language processing have by now been confidently apportioned to ...

Around the age of 18 months, some children start to use meaningful words little by little, while others still have a limited ...

Growing up amid a swirl of Russian, Hebrew, and English fed Elika Bergelson’s passion for language development. Her parents had emigrated in the 1970s from the Soviet Union to Israel, where they began ...

In this interactive workshop we will think together about what it means to do research that engages with communities outside the university, particularly communities that have been historically ...

Background Speech and language disorders are among the most common developmental concerns in early childhood, yet there is limited consensus in pediatrics regarding how accurately parent-report ...

Language development in early childhood encompasses a rapid progression from prelinguistic vocalisations to the use of complex sentences, underpinned by interactions between brain maturation, ...

Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention. This approach could ...