New! Sign up for our free email newsletter.

Language Acquisition News

June 10, 2025

Top Headlines

 

There's good news for people with migraine who take common drugs before or during pregnancy -- a new study found no increase in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and ADHD in their children. ...
Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language processing regions in the brain, according to a new ...
A new study outlines how artificial intelligence-powered handwriting analysis may serve as an early detection tool for dyslexia and dysgraphia among young ...
Researchers identified two brain networks involved in word retrieval -- the cognitive process of accessing words we need to speak. A semantic network processes meaning in middle/inferior frontal gyri, while an articulatory network in inferior ...
Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite generation of meaning by combining phonemes into ...
Large language models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and have been widely used for conversational interactions. However, assessing the personality of a given LLM remains ...
Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...
In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, scientists show that listeners used the avatar's ...
A new study by developmental scientists offers the first evidence that infants as young as 15 months can identify an object they have learned about from listening to language -- even if the object ...
Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation helped induce neuroplasticity, the brain's capacity to ...
Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more ...
New research finds the brain's language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on 'Star Trek' and High Valyrian and Dothraki on 'Game of ...

Latest Headlines

updated 12:01pm EDT

Earlier Headlines

 

A researcher investigated the impact of the group work environment on motivation in English as a second language classes. The study revealed that the group work environment plays an important role in ...

New psychology research indicates that multilingual children may have enhanced executive function and perspective taking ...

Can a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study sheds new light on this question. The researchers advocate for a fundamental revision of how artificial intelligence acquires and ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

A research team improved the AI recognition accuracy of word-level sign language recognition by adding data such as the signer's hand and facial expressions, as well as skeletal information on ...

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even ...

In a study, scientists have shown neurotransmitters in the human brain are active during the processing of the emotional content of language, providing new understanding into how people interpret the ...

A new study adds to the growing body of evidence on the cognitive benefits of speaking multiple languages, finding that multilingualism not only enhances general cognitive abilities but also may help ...

A choice was made to include each word in this sentence. Every message, even the most mundane, is crafted with a specific frame in mind that impacts how the message is perceived. The study of framing ...

Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty in which genes often play a role. How do genes associated with dyslexia relate to brain structure in the general population? In a large-scale study, a team of ...

Language and social cognition are fundamental to human communication. But how do these capacities interact? In a review paper, researchers show how language and social cognition are integrated in ...

A psychologist found that a baby's first sweet sounds and early attempts at forming words are directly linked to the baby's heart ...

A study is the first-of-its-kind to recognize American Sign Language (ASL) alphabet gestures using computer vision. Researchers developed a custom dataset of 29,820 static images of ASL hand ...

Researchers developed a system that converts AI explanations into narrative text that can be more easily understood by users. This system could help people determine when to trust a model's ...

New research shows that mothers have twice the impact on language exposure, challenging traditional parenting advice. In a new study, researchers found that there wasn't a single strategy that ...

Bucking conventionality, boys in Norway are making early gains in reading English as a second language and even outperforming girls at age 10 and 13 -- a new a study of more than one million students ...

Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

A study has revealed that genetic variants associated with higher likelihood of rhythm impairments tended to be also associated with higher likelihood of dyslexia. The reverse was also the case: ...

Great apes track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a new ...

Sentences contain subtle hints in their grammar that tell young children about the meaning of new words, according to new ...

Monday, April 7, 2025

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Friday, January 3, 2025

Monday, December 23, 2024

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Monday, December 16, 2024

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Friday, September 27, 2024

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Monday, September 16, 2024

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Friday, August 23, 2024

Monday, August 19, 2024

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Monday, August 12, 2024

Friday, August 2, 2024

Monday, July 29, 2024

Friday, July 26, 2024

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Monday, June 17, 2024

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Friday, June 7, 2024

Monday, June 3, 2024

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Monday, April 8, 2024

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Friday, March 15, 2024

Monday, March 11, 2024

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Friday, March 1, 2024

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Friday, February 23, 2024

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Monday, February 19, 2024

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Friday, December 8, 2023

Friday, December 1, 2023

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Monday, November 27, 2023

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Monday, November 6, 2023

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Monday, October 30, 2023

Thursday, October 26, 2023