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Here's what parents should look out for if they are worried about their baby's language development.
Discovering that orangutans can communicate about things that happened in the past provides new clues to how human language evolved.
Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos are finely tuned in to the developing minds of toddlers.
New research shows that children who are kind, supportive and understanding influence their siblings to act and behave in similar ways.
Using simple strategies, parents and teachers can help stimulate linguistic and other cognitive development in children.
Psychology researchers bring infants into the lab to learn more about how shared book reading influences brain and behavioral development.
Parents want to do everything they can to get their kids' school year off to a good start. Here's why talking with them is one of the best ways to do that.
Policies must seek to improve the manner in which the language of instruction is taught to learners who don't speak that language at home.
In Africa, standard English dominates in formal institutions. But in everyday usage it is supplanted by the continent's abundance of languages – and the varieties of English these gave rise to.
When you read to children, they develop abilities to express emotions through language.
There's nothing like raising an infant to help galvanise one of the greatest debates in modern linguistics.
Don't listen to the naysayers. New ways of communicating have created a wealth of new opportunities to harness – and study – language.
All children with early language problems are at increased risk of struggling at school, and having reduced employment opportunities and life chances, but the risk of early language problems is disproportionately…
How robust are languages learned in childhood but disused later in life? A new study by researchers at McGill University and the University of Montreal has found that the forgotten birth language of adoptees…
While the reading wars in education have raged for decades, most people agree that literacy is crucial for children and that the path to strong reading and writing skills begins in the home. But focusing…
Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the development of vocabulary and maths skills up to the age of 16. But does reading still have a part to play in the breadth of…
Babies are born communicating. Their cries and coos speak volumes. However, much-anticipated first words do not appear until 12 months later. By 18 months, the average child says about 50 words. By the…
Sticklers beware. The British Library is hosting it’s English Grammar Day, a day to finely split hairs over split infinitives, apostrophe’s (sic, sic, sic), and Oxford commas (sick!). Yes, in the case…
The rate at which children learn language varies substantially from child to child. Some children show rapid vocabulary growth before they go to school, while others learn so slowly that they can end up…
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Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education and Director of the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Annabelle Lukin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in Linguistics, Macquarie University
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Professor of Developmental Psychology, City, University of London
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Professor of Education, Furman University
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Professor of Speech & Language Sciences, Newcastle University
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer, and Speech-Language Pathologist, Discipline of Speech Pathology, University of Sydney
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Speech language pathologist & Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Director of the 1970 British Cohort Study, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, UCL
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Professor of Language and Communication Science, City, University of London
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Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Language and Literacy Education, Georgia State University
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town
