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 FINANCIAL — new study using MRI has revealed structural brain changes in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), a common but under-recognised difficulty in language learning.

Even 3- to 5-year-olds know what typical dogs and fish look like -- and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words. Researchers found that when children encounter new nouns, they use what they ...

The challenge is that children at this age are still developing language skills. In the past, students would sometimes cry ...

• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Heading out on a nature walk near their Carbondale, Colorado, home, Rachel Mulry and her three kids review some words: verde (green), naranja (orange), rojo (red). The family is learning Spanish ...

The songbird is among the classical species studied as a model for understanding the neurobiology of language. It uses song and vocalization to communicate information for its survival. The songbird’s ...

Emiko Muraki receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Penny Pexman receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...

Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds from a cochlear implant aren't as clear as natural hearing, making it ...

In this article, we will be looking at the 15 best foreign languages to learn for a child. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of language learning for children, you can directly go to the ...

"We're keeping it alive. We're speaking it with each other, and we're encouraging more families to come together," said ...