You know when your baby is happy because they coo at you. When your baby is unhappy, they let you know with a loud wail. You may have even noticed that your baby’s cry sounds different from time to ...

Casey Lew-Williams, an assistant professor of psychology, examines how young children learn language, including studying children learning multiple languages, children growing up in poverty and ...

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 ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent. Human babies are far ...

How do babies learn language? Irene Zaccari, CC BY-NC-ND Any adult who has attempted to learn a foreign language can attest to how difficult and confusing it can be. So when a three-year-old growing ...