Recent research highlights from APS journals. More
Recent research highlights from APS journals. More
Babies will pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study released today by UCLA’s Language Acquisition Lab and 16 other labs around the globe. The study found that babies who were exposed to two languages had a More
“How Do We Learn to Write?” by Cindi May and Michael Scullin; “The Toxic Stress Stew: Adversity + Reactivity + Rumination + Time” by David G. Myers More
Recent research highlights from APS journals. More
If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. That’s an opportunity largely reserved for children. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. They embark on the difficult journey for different reasons. Some want to More
Linguistic anthropologists have observed that people all over the world perceive languages, and speakers of those different languages, as fundamentally different from one another. When people listen to others’ speech, they hear discrete categorical boundaries even when differences in speech exist along a continuum. Our minds, and not just our More