Word learning in children represents a fundamental aspect of cognitive development and language acquisition. This area of research explores how young learners overcome the ambiguous nature of their ...

My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...

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 ...

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

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Toddlers at 15 months begin to learn new words for objects that they’ve never seen, suggests a study. The findings provide evidence that infants can learn words from language alone, say American ...

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 ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...

Babies might start learning the words for objects at around six to nine months old. In a new study, an A.I. was also able to match some objects to their names after getting trained on video recordings ...

When Rachel Accurso's son developed a speech delay, the former teacher made it her mission to help her child learn how to speak. Now better known as Ms. Rachel, she transformed her living room into a ...