The more "baby-talk" words that infants hear, the quicker they grasp language, new research suggests. Studies of nine-month-olds found that those most exposed to small words ending in "y" sounds ...

Infant language development is a fascinating journey filled with wonder and discovery. From the moment a baby is born, they ...

A British study, published in the journal Development and Psychopathology, claims that infants whose mothers regularly use language to describe what their child is thinking or feeling have higher ...

The Language Learning and Development (LangDev) Lab is a research group in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at SFU that studies the learning of spoken language in infants, children, and adults - ...

If you speak more than one language at home, you might already be wondering how and when to introduce them to your baby. And you might have heard a few things about language learning that simply ...