Language Acquisition News
May 19, 2024
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May 15, 2024 Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers recorded themselves performing traditional music and speaking in their native language. In all 50+ languages, the rhythms of songs and instrumental melodies were ...
May 16, 2024 Singing rehabilitates speech production in post-stroke aphasia. Researchers investigated the rehabilitative effect of singing on the ...
May 14, 2024 The vast majority of people have an ongoing conversation with themselves, an inner voice, that plays an important role in their daily lives. But between 5-10 per cent of the population do not have the same experience of an inner voice, and they find ...
May 7, 2024 Researchers have debunked a 75-year-old theory about how humans determine where sounds are coming from, and it could unlock the secret to creating a next generation of more adaptable and efficient ...
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Apr. 8, 2024 Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of ...
Apr. 2, 2024 New screening tools in child health care are effective in identifying early language and communication difficulties in children. This is shown by two ...
Mar. 19, 2024 A new study in people undergoing surgery to treat seizures related to epilepsy shows that pauses in speech reveal information about how people's ...
Mar. 15, 2024 A rigorous analysis of numerous studies concludes that a part of the brain traditionally associated with movement is abnormal in children with ...
Mar. 11, 2024 A study of polyglots found the brain's language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in -- and much ...
Mar. 6, 2024 About one-third of autistic people are unable to communicate using speech, and most are never provided an effective alternative. However, a new study suggests that many of these individuals are ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Language-processing difficulties are more of an indicator than memory loss of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), a risk factor for dementia due to Alzheimer's disease, according to a new ...
Mar. 1, 2024 In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative ...
Mar. 1, 2024 Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research ...
Feb. 23, 2024 Researchers have investigated whether the body is truly disconnected from the external world during sleep. To do so, they focused on how heartbeat changes when we hear different words during sleep. ...
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Apr. 2, 2024 A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
Feb. 20, 2024 A new study reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver's motivations for exposing them to digital media could also lessen the ...
Feb. 19, 2024 Book sharing is a popular way parents engage young children in conversation. However, not all parents are comfortable with book sharing and not all children like having books read to them. Research ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Echoes can make speech harder to understand, and tuning out echoes in an audio recording is a notoriously difficulty engineering problem. The human brain, however, appears to solve the problem ...
Feb. 8, 2024 People with aphasia have more trouble coming up with words they want to use when they're prompted by images and words that carry negative emotional meaning, new research ...
Feb. 1, 2024 By using advanced brain recording techniques, a new study demonstrates how neurons in the human brain work together to allow people to think about what words they want to say and then produce them ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Emotions influence human decision-making and behavior. Therefore, understanding the most salient human emotions can have theoretical and practical implications. By exploiting a feature of words ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Sentences with greater linguistic complexity are most likely to fire up a key brain language processing center, according to a study that employed an artificial language ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Acetaminophen is considered the safest over-the-counter pain reliever and fever reducer available during pregnancy. Studies have shown that 50%-65% of women in North America and Europe take ...
Jan. 3, 2024 The temporary, repeated hearing loss caused by chronic ear infections can affect language skills years ...
Dec. 20, 2023 In a recent study, researchers systematically tested an early version of ChatGPT's understanding of statements in six categories: facts, conspiracies, controversies, misconceptions, stereotypes, ...
Dec. 13, 2023 In the largest study yet of deep neural networks trained to perform auditory tasks, researchers found most of these models generate internal representations that share properties of representations ...
Dec. 8, 2023 Neuroscientists have obtained the first direct recordings of the human brain in the minutes before and after a brain hub crucial for language meaning was surgically disconnected. The results reveal ...
Dec. 1, 2023 Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Four in five primary caregivers of nine-month-old babies reported cuddling, talking and playing with their little one several times a day, in the first national long-term study of babies in over two ...
Nov. 27, 2023 New research has shown that extra practice in blending printed letter sounds can help struggling beginner readers (age 4-5) learn to ...
Nov. 21, 2023 Results showed that bilinguals seem to be more efficient at ignoring information that's irrelevant, rather than suppressing -- or inhibiting information. ...
Nov. 14, 2023 Researchers incorporate language ideologies, along with the impact of interaction between individuals with opposing preferences, on the language shift process. The team chose a quantitative approach ...
Nov. 6, 2023 A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons and engineers can translate a person's brain signals into what they're trying to say. The new ...
Nov. 2, 2023 A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane' people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue ...
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- Complex, Unfamiliar Sentences Make the Brain's Language Network Work Harder
- Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy Linked to Language Delays in Children
- Chronic Childhood Ear Infections Delay Language Development
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- New Study Reveals Similarities Between Chimpanzee and Human Language Development
- Study Examines Role of Working Memory, Cognitive Functions in English Learners Learning to Write
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- Calls for Verbal Abuse of Children by Adults to Be Formally Recognized as Form of Child Maltreatment
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- Knowledge of Building Blocks of Words Plays an Important Role When Deaf Children Learn to Read, Analysis Shows
- How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back
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- Two Brain Networks Are Activated While Reading, Study Finds
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- Smell Words Differ Primarily in Terms of Pleasantness and Edibility
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- After Stroke in an Infant's Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side