New research from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has significant implications for understanding both ...

The ASU Child Language and Literacy Lab offers ongoing opportunities in the field of language development for both children in need of services and the developmental professionals who help them.

A new study uses deep linear networks to prove that language undergoes iterated learning to become structured and learnable.

Many parents have heard the warning: Don’t use baby talk with babies and toddlers. Instead, caregivers are often encouraged to speak properly and use adultlike language, out of concern that simplified ...

When children learn to talk, their ability to pronounce different sounds develops gradually. We asked speech and language ...

Early childhood educators speak differently to boys compared to girls in toddler classrooms, University of Queensland ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Early Childhood Research, researchers investigated the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC), especially during the backdrop of the ...

Propheter said the data will help the department understand better how many preschools are offering bilingual programs, and how languages other than English are being used in the classroom. In ...

Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at ...

When parents notice their young child struggling to communicate, the most common response they hear from friends, family, and ...