Alex Hodges spends significant time every day with her infant daughter doing what kids these days might call "yapping." "Maria can't watch you today because one of her kids is sick," Hodges begins one ...

Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in conversations, using clues from the overall context to infer a new word's ...

Why is language uniquely human? As mentioned in previous posts, chimpanzees can’t learn language because they can’t learn to name things. Only humans can. We’ve also argued that an infant’s ...

The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

Spread the loveThe journey of parenthood is filled with exciting milestones, and one of the most anticipated moments for parents is when their baby starts talking. This significant development is ...

Babies understand verbs before they even say their first words, according to a new study. Researchers found that, by 10-months-old, youngsters are already beginning to understand verbs. The study, ...