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Language Lessons From Babies
The New York Times: In today’s 18 and Under column, Dr. Perri Klass writes about new science of bilingualism and how scientists are teasing out the earliest differences between brains exposed to one language and
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Hearing Bilingual: How Babies Sort Out Language
The New York Times: Once, experts feared that young children exposed to more than one language would suffer “language confusion,” which might delay their speech development. Today, parents often are urged to capitalize on that
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Toys May Shape Language Development
Yahoo News: Toddlers who play with different-shaped objects learn new words twice as fast as those who play with objects that have similar shapes, a new study finds. University of Iowa researchers worked with 16
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New Research From Psychological Science
A Functional Role for the Motor System in Language Understanding: Evidence From Theta-Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Roel M. Willems, Ludovica Labruna, Mark D’Esposito, Richard Ivry, and Daniel Casasanto Previous studies have revealed that motor areas
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How words have the power to heal
CNN: The first thing I did after receiving what is surely one of the top two or three most terrifying medical diagnoses was pick up the telephone to call my husband to tell him to
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People fluent in English ‘easily translate what they hear into Chinese’
Yahoo India: Washington, June 15 (ANI): Chinese people who are fluent in English can translate English words into Chinese automatically and quickly, without thinking about it, a new study has found. Taoli Zhang of the
