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 ...

Many parents show their children smartphones or tablets while preparing meals or when out and about. While convenient, some ...

Scientists examining the evolutionary roots of language say they've discovered chimp vocal development is not far off from humans. A study has provided evidence that young chimpanzees are capable of ...

Growing up amid a swirl of Russian, Hebrew, and English fed Elika Bergelson’s passion for language development. Her parents had emigrated in the 1970s from the Soviet Union to Israel, where they began ...

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 ...

Background Speech and language disorders are among the most common developmental concerns in early childhood, yet there is limited consensus in pediatrics regarding how accurately parent-report ...

Language development in early childhood encompasses a rapid progression from prelinguistic vocalisations to the use of complex sentences, underpinned by interactions between brain maturation, ...

In this interactive workshop we will think together about what it means to do research that engages with communities outside the university, particularly communities that have been historically ...