Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate ...

Co-authored by Camila Alviar, Ph.D. and Miriam Lense, Ph.D. Infants all over the world become masters of the language their community speaks within the first 3 years of life, a surprisingly short time ...

Baby talk isn't just cute - it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from the University of the ...

It’s every parent’s dream – a child that can switch between languages without a second thought. And it’s easier for your tot to learn than you may think, especially if you start when he’s a baby.

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 ...

UA professor of psychology and linguistics LouAnn Gerken was recently awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research how babies acquire language. Gerken’s research will ...

It’s 3:07 a.m. Your baby has been crying on and off for 2 hours, 27 minutes and 17 seconds. But who’s counting? You’ve fed, changed and burped your little one. You rocked him until the room is ...