Tone More Important than Phonetics for Babies’ Language Development
A new study by the University of Cambridge,...
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Early Language Acquisition in COVID Lockdowns
Extensive research during the COVID-19 pandemic has shown its effect on the way we talk and engage with our language, like the introduction of...
Learn a New Language to Boost Brain Activity
A new study, published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, shows that studying a new language boosts brain activity, which then reduces as language skills...
Bilingual Infants Prefer Baby Talk
Babies pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study led by...
Naked Mole Rats Communicate Complexly
Birds, dolphins, and bees are all well-known within the scientific community for their ability to communicate in ways that resemble human language in one...
Where Do Students Store New Vocabulary?
A study on word learning recently published in Neuropsychologia is shedding light on the age-old question of how language learners’ minds store the target...
Study Shows Brain’s Innate Capacity for Reading
The human brain is predisposed to visualizing words, even before individuals acquire literacy, according to a team of researchers at Ohio State University.
Their paper,...
What Language Does Pain Speak?
A new study suggests that the language a bilingual person speaks may affect their physical sensations, including pain.
Researchers at the University of Miami tried...
How COVID-19 is Reshaping Translation & Interpretation
COVID-19 has changed the world irrevocably, forcing the translation and interpretation industry to rapidly adopt digital technology and tools to reduce the disruption of...
Research Reveals Children’s Linguistic Superpower
Infants and young children have brains with a linguistic superpower, according to Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists, who found that unlike adults who use...
Young Bilingual Brains May Age Better
Bilingual children and adolescents may grow up with more grey matter, according to a new study published in Brain Structure and Function, in which...
Chimpanzee Lip-Smacks help Trace Evolution of Language
Chimpanzees produce lip-smacks at a speech-like rhythm of open-close mouth cycles, suggesting that speech-rhythm was built upon existing primate signal systems
In the paper ‘Chimpanzee...
Baby Talk Translates Best
In the largest study to date looking at how infants from across the world respond to the different ways adults speak, psychologists found that...
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