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 ...

It is reported that the advice is likely to suggest using screens as part of an activity like storytime or with educational ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

Language development during early childhood can indicate how well a baby's nervous system was developed in the womb. Prenatal exposure to cortisol – a steroid hormone that helps the body respond to ...

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 ...