For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...
Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...
Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...
Babies may learn words before their first birthday — but not like older kids do. Experts report that 10-month-old babies can learn new words and usually link those words to interesting objects — even ...
More than 40 years ago, psychologists found signs that children living in noisy places were having trouble learning to read. They suspected that the noise interfered with language learning. Now, their ...
New research suggests prodigious pups that already have large vocabularies can learn new words by listening in on their owners’ conversations ...
Most dog owners are aware that their pooch is smart enough to know a few choice phrases—“walkies,” for instance, or, perhaps more likely, “time for dinner.” Some particularly intelligent canines can ...
The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...
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 ...
As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...