We already know how important parent input is in developing children’s language skills, and that a reduction in child-directed language could have a negative impact on their language development. New ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

Around 45% of children in Austrian day nurseries have a first language other than German. Those who our experiencing difficulty in learning the second language are often diagnosed as having a ...

Physicists deal with background in their experiments in two ways: by reducing it and by rejecting it. To some degree, scientists on all of today’s particle physics experiments share a common challenge ...

A background in music helps speakers learn a tonal language, such as Mandarin, a new UB study suggests. People with musical training — whether instrumental or vocal — are better at imitating pitch ...

If at first, you don’t succeed, fix the errors and redouble your efforts; that’s not how the saying goes, but that is what Ohioans for Gun Safety did Tuesday. After submitting their original proposal ...

Learning a new language is hard — especially if you're an adult, especially if you're busy, and especially if the language is based on really different sounds than your native tongue. Hard, but not ...

Background noise from the TV is a common sound in many households, but a new study suggests it might damage more than just the electricity bill. U.S. researchers have found that the drone of a TV can ...

People with synesthesia experience the sensory world in a unique way — for example, they "taste" words or "hear" colors. Now, new research suggests that people who learn a second language but aren't ...

New research shows how language and income shape who gets credited for scientific output—and why women and non-native English speakers face persistent gaps.