When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent chatter - ...

Babbling in babies and marmoset monkeys shows how brain growth and feedback from caregivers shape language learning.

A paper published in Science found that a relatively simple AI system fed with data filmed from a baby’s-eye view began to learn words.

Human babies’ babbling is more than cute noise—it’s a feedback-driven learning strategy that sets the foundation for language.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and ...

A neural network trained on the experiences of a single young child managed to learn one of the core components of language: how to match words to the objects they represent.

What next? Our research shows again how baby talk is not an affectation or a silly thing adults do. It helps little children learn language. Warlpiri caregivers make sophisticated use of baby talk ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.