One of the most amazing phenomena in young children learning a language is how well and how fast they learn new words. There comes a time in their development when we, adults, can hardly keep up with ...

Where do you see the word learning research in bilingual infants going in the future? The studies we have just discussed are inspired by the work of Dr. Janet Werker and her colleagues (see here), who ...

In July, I binged three seasons of the sci-fi Netflix show Dark in a week. The whole show was in German, and I was so obsessed with it, I started learning the language through Duolingo, and I’m happy ...

How people work out the meanings of new words has been revealed by researchers, who say this is similar to the way in which young children learn language. The researchers said: ''A lot of what infants ...

'Atesi' -- what sounds like a word from the Elven language of Lord of the Rings is actually a Vimmish word meaning 'thought'. Scientists have used Vimmish, an artificial language specifically ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the tiers associated with challenging words. Children who enter kindergarten with a small vocabulary don’t get taught enough ...