Language learning is a human universality. There is no human culture without language, and in every culture, children naturally pick up the language or languages used by those around them. Yet ...

Learning a second language comes with cognitive and societal benefits, yet Australian students are abandoning language studies.

Infants begin life with an intrinsic sensitivity to the acoustic and facial cues of language, rapidly specialising in the phonetic distinctions of their native tongue within the first year. Early ...

Children acquire hundreds of words in their second year of life 1. How children learn so much in so little time remains a central question in language development research. ‘Word learning’ here refers ...

Apps are great, but hanging out with toddlers who refuse to speak English might be the ultimate language-learning hack.

Researchers create a storybook generation system for personalized vocabulary learning. Professor Inseok Hwang from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, along with students Jungeun Lee, ...

Bilingual children offer a powerful perspective for understanding how language develops—not just in idealized classroom settings, but in the real world under genuine constraints. Their linguistic ...

Sentences contain subtle hints in their grammar that tell young children about the meaning of new words, according to new research. As young children, how do we build our vocabulary? Even by age 1, ...

Language development in autistic children is far from uniform: some progress without notable difficulty, while others show ...

Language learning is a human universal. There is no human culture without language, and in every culture, children naturally pick up the language or languages used by those around them. Yet cultures ...

Professor Inseok Hwang from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, along with students Jungeun Lee, Suwon Yoon, and Kyoosik Lee from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at ...

UNIGE scientists have discovered that children with autism exhibit different brain patterns depending on their language ...