Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

The findings suggest that the acquisition of the modern NOVA1 variant may have protected us from the detrimental effects of lead, promoting complex language development and social cohesion. This could ...

Discover the meaning of “language deprivation” and why accessible language exposure for children born deaf or hard of hearing is important.

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if they regularly heard their mother read them a story while in intensive care ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

Although the cute voices we use when speaking to babies and pets sound similar, they are actually quite different, explain ...

A review reveals that the interplay between technology, identity, and languages involves and encourages multiple identities, language mixing, and support for minority languages.

CALD children in Australia face greater early school challenges, especially in communication and language skills.

Children entering school from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families are more likely to face developmental ...

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit extraordinary competence in language comprehension and generation. However, as these models find increasing adoption in communication systems, they also ...

The enrollment of students learning English as a new language has soared in recent years. But a report found “systemic breakdowns” in their education. By Troy Closson New York City’s public education ...

Of the Nashua School District’s 9,701 students enrolled at the start of the 2024-25 school year, about 1 in 5 — 2,032 — were English language learners. In order to help those students, the district ...