Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you’ve ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it’s because they’re picking up on ...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Babies will pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study released Tuesday by UCLA’s Language ...

Babies' brains process and practise languages months and months before they ever utter their first word. This is the conclusion drawn by a team of neuroscientists writing in the Proceedings of the ...

WASHINGTON -- Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from ...

Guillaume Thierry is supported by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) under the NAWA Chair Programme (PPN/PRO/2020/1/00006) and he is also affiliated with the Faculty of English at ...

A study finds babies prefer baby talk, whether they're learning one language or two. Scientists knew infants learning one language preferred the sing-song tones of parents' baby talk, and now ...

There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants. Baby talk is ...

A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech. The way we instinctively speak to babies - higher pitch, slower speed, ...

Recent studies on how language learning occurs are beginning to chip away at some long-held notions about second-language acquisition and point to potential learning benefits for students who speak ...

Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...