Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

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Learning a second language during childhood can prove to be a fun and fruitful experience for children. Though it has been ...

Even 3- to 5-year-olds know what typical dogs and fish look like -- and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words. Researchers found that when children encounter new nouns, they use what they ...

Aviva Segal receives funding from The Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). Sandra Martin-Chang received funding from SSCHRC. Concordia University provides funding as a founding ...

See how sleep helps children try to learn made-up words. To measure the brain’s ability to form completely new memories, researchers teach kids made-up words for novel objects.

Emiko Muraki receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Penny Pexman receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of ...

For 20 years, a chasm of words has yawned between the children of college-educated professionals and those of high school dropouts, quantifying the academic disadvantage faced by the latter group long ...

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Even young children know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words, reports a team from the Princeton Baby Lab, where researchers study how babies ...