The older we get, the more difficult it becomes to learn another language. Why? Some say our brains are only built for it when we are young. Some say it is the way we are taught that does not cater ...

Brevity, as the Bard said, may well be the soul of wit. But, according to research by a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, brevity also is the nature of speech to infants, and ...

Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the ...

As we have mentioned, language acquisition is an interesting topic; however, it is only recently that real linguistic research has been generated. Early studies were diaries of spontaneous speech ...