News tagged with language abilities

Preschoolers' language development is partly tied to their classmates' language skills

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

May 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Young children learn how to speak and understand language from the words parents speak at home and teachers speak in preschool. A new longitudinal study has found that their preschool classmates also play a part.

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Researchers report gene associated with language, speech and reading disorders

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

Aug 27, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment has been identified by a research team directed by Mabel Rice at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Shelley Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center, ...

Surprising language abilities in children with autism

Medicine & Health / Diseases

Apr 25, 2008 | 4 / 5 (11) | 1

What began as an informal presentation by a clinical linguist to a group of philosophers, has led to some surprising discoveries about the communicative language abilities of people with autism.

Researcher investigates how the gestures of the blind differ across cultures

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Feb 20, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gestures serve an important role in language learning and development, and differ depending upon the language and culture, notes a Georgia State University researcher who is investigating how children born ...

Study finds that children can learn a second language in preschool

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Sep 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

Interim results from an international research project which looks at bilingual education reveal that children can learn a second language as early as preschool.

Why can’t I learn a new language?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

Jul 08, 2008 | 4.4 / 5 (51) | 4

Adults, even the brightest ones, often struggle with learning new languages. Dr Nina Kazanina in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bristol explains why.

Research finds that chatspeak has no impact on children's spelling ability

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

Sep 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Parents, get ready to say OMG and watch your teens roflol.

Scientist unveils secret of newborn's first words

Medicine & Health / Research

Aug 26, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (13) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study could explain why "daddy" and "mommy" are often a baby's first words – the human brain may be hard-wired to recognize certain repetition patterns.

No easy answers in evolution of human language

Medicine & Health / Research

Feb 17, 2008 | 4.1 / 5 (17) | 1

The evolution of human speech was far more complex than is implied by some recent attempts to link it to a specific gene, says Robert Berwick, professor of computational linguistics at MIT.

Genetic study provides new insights into molecular basis of language development

Medicine & Health / Research

Nov 05, 2008 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

Scientists have identified the first gene that is associated with a common childhood language disorder, known as specific language impairment (SLI). The gene – CNTNAP2 – has also been recently implicated in autism, and could ...