Science news articles about 'language acquisition'

... their needs and wants to peers and adults," Soderman said. By observing the students in a unique language-acquisition environment, she added, researchers are also able to identify valuable teaching ...

... of research on autism in young children. This research will also provide unprecedented insight into language acquisition in typically-developing Canadian children as well as those with communication ...

... by one year of age, children are able to recognize mispronunciations of words. This new research in language acquisition indicates that infants learn the forms of many words and they begin to gather ...

... ria Silvestre and Aurora Leal, members of the UAB Research Centre on Hearing Impairment and Language Acquisition (GISTAL), were interested in discovering whether deaf viewers - the main users of this ...

Language acquisition may begin even before children start saying many words

... developmental changes in brain anatomy relate to motor and behavioural skills, such as motor coordination and language acquisition. Even higher-order skills like planning, IQ, and organizational ...

... results may help explain previously identified associations between television viewing and delayed language acquisition, the authors note. "Furthermore, our results highlight the need to conceptualize ...

Researchers in Spain have observed in this first year of the study that, three months after receiving a cochlear implant all the children showed improvement in their perception and ability to detect ...

... . This ability may help infants identify their conspecifics even when they are out of view and allow them to identify the human-produced speech sounds that are relevant for language acquisition.

... : New findings indicate that musical training might enhance other auditory skills such as language acquisition and reading, and provides important diagnostic and treatment options for a number of ...