Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

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 ...

Verbal interactions between parents and children create a social feedback loop important for language development, according to research. That loop appears to be experienced less frequently and is ...

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 ...

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Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...