The temporary, repeated hearing loss caused by chronic ear infections can affect language skills years later. Ear infections are a common childhood experience, but a new study suggests parents should ...

Language acquisition in early childhood represents a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development, where children rapidly transform acoustic signals into a rich, structured linguistic system.

Twins develop language very differently than single children because of their profound relationship with each other. Early language acquisition in twins is very crucial to the development of their ...

The songbird is among the classical species studied as a model for understanding the neurobiology of language. It uses song and vocalization to communicate information for its survival. The songbird’s ...

How does speech from other children influence an infant’s ability to learn language? Federica Bulgarelli, assistant professor in the departments of Learning and Instruction and Psychology, has been ...

Second language writing represents a critical domain where linguistic development and academic proficiency converge. Over recent decades researchers have deepened our understanding of how learners’ ...

For deaf people, language deprivation during early childhood represents the most significant threat to the exercise of their civil rights and liberties. Nearly all of our clients in these cases were ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...