Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists advocate that music underlies the ability to acquire language.
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Noam Chomsky’s political views attract so ...
Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the ...
Second language acquisition (SLA) of aspect and tense occupies a central role in applied linguistics, as it elucidates how learners come to express temporal distinctions in a non-native tongue. This ...
Brevity, as the Bard said, may well be the soul of wit. But, according to research by a computer scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, brevity also is the nature of speech to infants, and ...
Over the past several years, there has been an increased research output in the field of language acquisition and its effects on the brain. This is especially true with regards to the effects of ...
As we have mentioned, language acquisition is an interesting topic; however, it is only recently that real linguistic research has been generated. Early studies were diaries of spontaneous speech ...