Language/Linguistics/Speech

Learning about letter sounds turns out to be key To help children learn to read earlier, one thing appears to be key: Learn the letters and sounds associated with the letters as early as possible. This may sound obvious, but another theory…

Certain brain regions must be intact in stroke survivors with aphasia if they are to copy what another speaker says, report researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina and elsewhere in BrainCredit: Sarah Pack, Medical…

Important to intervene early in toddlers' development to mitigate later mental health, language disorder risk EVANSTON, Ill. --- Toddler speech delays and temper tantrums have long been assumed to go hand in hand, but no large-scale…

The first manual of expressions describing cancer has been developed by researchers to help patients make sense of their disease. The first manual of expressions describing cancer has been developed by researchers to help patients make…

The first comprehensive study of the human ability to recognize the facial expressions of dogs suggests this ability is mainly acquired through age and experience and is not an evolutionarily selected traitCredit: Sylvio Tüpke Dogs were…

Language proficiency has an important influence on learners' ability to answer scientific questions a new joint study by Lancaster and Sheffield Universities has found. Language proficiency has an important influence on learners' ability…

Credit: Zhang et al. 2019 Basketball season kicked off last month and with it comes the return of the most enduring of fan traditions: trash talk. Now, researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have taken a deeper look…

What The Study Did: This study of patients from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds who received care at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California health system looked at how common attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses…

Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue Michigan State University researchers who found preschool teachers don't often encourage writing for communication purposes. "Few…

A study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African 'homeland' and thrived there for 70 thousand years. The breakthrough findings are published in the…