A student writes in a workbook during a dual language immersion class at Pueblo Elementary School in Scottsdale, Ariz., on ...

A review reveals that the interplay between technology, identity, and languages involves and encourages multiple identities, language mixing, and support for minority languages.

“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) ...

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 ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a problem involving the acquisition and development of language, and children with it experience difficulties speaking, communicating, understanding and ...

The human language system appears to recruit a broad network of frontal and temporal brain regions. Even though different aspects of language processing have by now been confidently apportioned to ...

The study’s senior author, Anne Gallagher, emphasized to Scientific American that “We cannot say babies ‘learn’ a language,” during gestation, just that different languages may shape or make a kind of ...