Toddlers are learning language skills earlier than expected and by the age of 18 months understand enough of the lexicon of their own language to recognize how speakers use sounds to convey meaning.

TikTok user @languagesimp has shared that native English speakers sound like Sim - from the popular Sims video game franchise - to non-native speakers. In a clip that has been viewed over eight ...

Scientists at UCSF have uncovered some tantalizing clues into the complex process of how the brain hears and interprets human voices, and transforms an influx of meaningless sounds into language.

Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to your child’s early speech and language development? Speech refers to the production of sounds that transform into words through the physical act of ...

Back in 2021, TikToker the ‘Language Simp’ shared a video demonstrating what it sounds like to those who don’t speak it — and the viral clip has since resurfaced. In it, the language enthusiast with a ...

Deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, along the banks of the Mai ci river and shaded from the scorching sunlight by a verdant canopy of hanging branches, the linguist Dan Everett is going back ...

The first few months of a baby’s life come with a flurry of challenges on a still-developing brain. Sights, sounds, smells and touches as well as other emotional experiences flood in, waiting to be ...

We live in a sea of constant sounds and noises. Some are meaningful and some are not. However, it seems as though we have a remarkable ability to discriminate human speech from all of those other ...

A new study comparing stroke survivors with healthy adults reveals that post-stroke language disorders stem not from slower ...