News tagged with language acquisition

Cybertools, database will help analyze languages

A new generation of cybertools developed at Cornell will help researchers share and analyze rare Sri Lankan language recordings important for studying language acquisition in children.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Nov 01, 2011 | not rated yet | 0

Study: Word sounds contain clues for language learners

(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do words sound the way they do? For over a century, it has been a central tenet of linguistic theory that there is a completely arbitrary relationship between how a word sounds and what it means.

Other Sciences / Other

Sep 13, 2011 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 3 |

Language learning: Researchers use video games to crack the speech code

When we speak, our enunciation and pronunciation of words and syllables fluctuates and varies from person to person. Given this, how do infants decode all of the spoken sounds they hear to learn words and meanings?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

May 18, 2011 | 4 / 5 (1) | 1 |

Language learning influenced by genes

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have found a gene - called ROBO1 - linked to the mechanism in the brain that helps infants develop speech.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

Feb 11, 2011 | 4 / 5 (2) | 0

Challenging the limits of learning: Human mind vs. yardstick of a machine

Although we're convinced that baby is brilliant when she mutters her first words, cognitive scientists have been conducting a decades-long debate about whether or not human beings actually "learn" language.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Jan 19, 2011 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 14 |