Analysis of data across many different studies shows that children's word recognition improves continuously from infancy through age 5 years, and shows strong coupling with early vocabulary.

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 ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

How can practitioners sustain children's attention and involvement when they don't share a language? Michael Jones shows one way. We know that children learn language quickly if they are involved in ...

“Learning,” management guru Peter Drucker said, “is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Nikhil Arora takes that view very ...

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 - ...