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 ...

Some people consider baby talk to be incredibly annoying, and many believe it can even be harmful to a child's development. But research has shown speaking slowly in a childish voice is in fact ...

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 ...

Everyone wants their kid to be a smarty pants. And with more and more early childhood development studies linking higher intelligence to acquisition of secondary and tertiary languages at a young age, ...

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 ...

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Trendy “baby signing” classes established to boost language skills actually make little difference to toddlers’ development, according to new research. By Graeme Paton 03 November 2012 • 6:00am Dr Liz ...

Talking in a high pitch 'baby voice' to children helps them learn language quicker and pick up more words by the age of two, researchers have found. Talking in a baby voice is the best way to ...