To learn a language, a child must learn a set of all-purpose rules, such as “a sentence can be formed by combining a subject, a verb and an object” that can be used in an infinite number of ways. A new study shows that by the age of seven months More
Each year, about 40,000 children are adopted across national lines, primarily by families from North America and Western Europe. These joyful occasions mark the growth of new families and also provide the framework for a natural experiment in language development. Although most are infants and toddlers, thousands of older children More
It’s a given that some kids are better than others at throwing a baseball or memorizing a Shakespearean soliloquy. Whether it’s due to inherent talent or education, or some combination of both, might be open to question. But there is one thing that all children are amazingly good at, no More
