Language/Linguistics/Speech

Disabled people face being marginalised by the very programmes that are designed to help them. Rather than taking their differences and particular preferences into account, projects and welfare systems established to provide support are…

Researchers examined factors that help predict language development in speech-delayed children with autism Fine motor skills - used for eating, writing and buttoning clothing - may be a strong predictor for identifying whether children…

CMU computer model aims to turn film scripts into animationsCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computer model that can translate text describing physical movements…

Credit: Courtesy of University of Hamburg Data from individuals with different types of severe visual impairment suggest that the associations we make between sounds and shapes -- a "smooth" b or a "spiky" k -- may form during a sensitive…

Learning a new language is a multi-step, often multi-year process: Listen to new sounds, read new word structures, speak in different patterns or inflections. But the chances of picking up that new language -- even unintentionally --…

Language skills can benefit from parents' early support, interactions A new language-skills study that included infants later diagnosed with autism suggests that all children can benefit from exposure to more speech from their caregivers.…

Findings revealed that chimpanzees and bonobos share the contrasting colour pattern seen in human eyes, which makes it easy for them to detect the direction of someone's gaze from a distanceCredit: National University of Singapore Studies…

Interspeech 2019 is the annual conference of the International Speech Communication Association and the world's largest event on the science and technology of spoken language. A record number of visitors is expected at the 20th conference…

Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech -- but only two and never more, unlike humans CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The utterances of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated than previously realized --…

Credit: Peter Milburn Announced today, 3 September 2019, by the European Research Council (ERC), the prominent grant - which includes 1.5 million euros in funding over the next five years - is designed to help early career researchers and…