Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

Even 3- to 5-year-olds know what typical dogs and fish look like -- and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words. Researchers found that when children encounter new nouns, they use what they ...

At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children ...

Parents have so much that they need to be responsible for these days. Where children often waited until kindergarten or first grade to learn their numbers, letters and colors, today’s children often ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Aviva Segal receives funding from The Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). Sandra Martin-Chang received funding from SSCHRC. Concordia University provides funding as a founding ...

Even young children know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words, reports a team from the Princeton Baby Lab, where researchers study how babies ...