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 ...

“We found that both monolingual and bilingual children could learn the words, but only from a speaker who matched their language-learning environment,” says study co-author Krista Byers-Heinlein, a ...

Since language is typically learned through social interaction, with autistic children’s preference for musical sounds and the social bonding power of music, music-assisted language ...

In the second part of our six-part series, we show how researchers are making groundbreaking links between parts of language and parts of the brain ...

A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This &ldquo ...

She says more children today are growing up in households that speak a language other than English, meaning they are learning more than one language and hearing different accents. One eventual ...

Some aboriginal children in Fredericton are learning about traditional Maliseet language and culture in a new outdoor preschool program. "I saw a Mihku," says four-year-old Maia Okoye, explaining ...

Molnar said young children learn language by listening to the sounds and by watching the movement of the speaker's tongue and mouth. They also pick up on context from facial expressions.

Children often learn new languages more easily than adults do, but it’s unclear why. Some hypothesize that grasping a language requires absorbing subtle patterns unconsciously and that adults ...