Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...
Verbal interactions between parents and children create a social feedback loop important for language development, according to research. That loop appears to be experienced less frequently and is ...
We have been exploring the enigma of language—its power in helping us understand one another, and the mischief caused by misinterpretations. Consider again this excerpt of a letter Wilbur Wright sent ...
The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment consortium—or WIDA—has released its new edition of English-language-development standards that are directly linked to the common-core standards in ...
Background Socioeconomic factors influence language development in the general population, but the association remains poorly documented in children born very preterm (VPT). We assessed the impact of ...
A month before they are born, fetuses carried by American mothers-to-be can distinguish between someone speaking to them in English and Japanese. Using non-invasive sensing technology from the ...
ARLINGTON, VA (February 12, 2014)--Rosetta Stone Inc. (RST), the world`s leader in technology-based learning solutions, today announced the release of a new study showing the definitive impact ...
Linguists want to understand how languages have become so diverse and what constraints language evolution is subject to. To this end, they search for recurring patterns in language structure. In spite ...