Psychology researchers provide a fresh perspective on how infants connect names with objects, a critical skill for language development. A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with ...

The special tone of voice, which adults use to talk to babies might be an important part of infant's language learning ability. Researchers suspect that baby talk, with short sentences, slow pace and ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from the University of the Sunshine Coast has found. The study is published in ...

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 ...

One of the tightest interpersonal connections in the world is between new parents and their infants. Although tightening this connection seems unlikely, it is possible to enrich and expand it—in ways ...

A baby sits on the floor and reaches toward a red ball on the floor and grunts. The mother responds, "Do you see the ball?" She picks it up, holds it in front of the baby and says, "Do you want to ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A lot is unknown about how infants begin to connect names with objects, a critical skill for later language development. A new study by Indiana University researchers offers a ...