The focus of this part of the project is on child language acquisition. We investigate how children deal with overabundance and defectiveness in their language input, which overabundant forms they ...

Language learning is a human universal. There is no human culture without language, and in every culture, children naturally pick up the language or languages used by those around them. Yet cultures ...

How do children learn their first language? This question has been the subject of few studies conducted outside of industrialized countries. At the Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et ...

Language mixing -- using elements from two languages in the same sentence -- is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and two-year-old children ...

In a new study, young children and their adult caregivers uttered fewer vocalizations, used fewer words and engaged in fewer conversations when in the presence of audible television. In a new study, ...

This interactive visualization provides a look into the most complete record of a single child’s speech development ever created. The data has been organized to show the age of the child when he spoke ...

Co-authored with Sirada Rochanavibhata, M.A. In a world that is becoming increasingly globalized and diverse, the ability to speak more than one language may be a desirable trait, especially because ...

Child language acquisition epitomises a uniquely rapid and sophisticated learning process underpinned by a complex interplay between innate cognitive mechanisms and environmental influences. Infants ...

Language is a very important part of life. Communication between people not only enables us to understand one-another, but aids in developing relationships and allows us to communicate our problems, ...