“Emotional exchanges and nurturing practices relearned by each generation over millions of years” can hardly be supposed to account for human language acquisition (Verbatim, The Chronicle, November 5) ...

Andrea Ford, PhD, a speech-language pathologist and assistant professor in the College of Allied Health Sciences, has been awarded the college’s first National Institutes of Health (NIH) K grant.

Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection.

Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you're born? A UdeM-led team of neuropsychology researchers has ...

CALD children in Australia face greater early school challenges, especially in communication and language skills.

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

As our loyal and constant companions for many millennia, dogs have heard us speak, sing, rant, and lament for a good portion of human history. So in addition to their own understanding of language, ...

Twins develop language very differently than single children because of their profound relationship with each other. Early language acquisition in twins is very crucial to the development of their ...

Countries that use subtitling rather than dubbing for foreign TV content demonstrate significantly higher English proficiency.

The world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken a significant leap forward with the development of AI’s own programming language. This groundbreaking achievement has far-reaching implications for ...