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·February 28, 2023·5 min read

How Children Learn Emotion Labels Through Parents’ Speech

Young children are more likely to know an emotional label when they also know related valenced words. Parents who surround emotional labels with related words provide support for their child's learning and language development skills.

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·February 8, 2023·3 min read

Toddlers’ Attention to ‘Motherese’ Speech May Be Used to Diagnose Autism

Toddlers on the autism spectrum who pay less attention to "motherese", or baby-talk, exhibited weaker social and language skills in later tests.

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·February 1, 2023·7 min read

A Subtitled World: Uncovering the Secrets of Tickertape Synesthesia

Study reveals how we connect sounds, letters, and words to their meaning, and the mechanisms behind why those with "ticker-tape" synesthesia tend to see subtitles when listening to the spoken word.

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·January 19, 2023·4 min read

Repeating New Words Out Loud Isn’t Always the Best Way to Learn Them

When learning new vocabulary, repeating words can have a negative effect on learning. Silently listening to the words or pausing between hearing and producing the new word helps to better consolidate language learning.

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·January 13, 2023·4 min read

Corpus Callosum Found to Switch off Right Hemisphere During Speech

Study confirms the role the corpus callosum plays in language lateralization.

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·January 13, 2023·6 min read

How Your Mood Affects the Way You Process Language

Those in negative moods may be better able to spot inconsistencies in the things they read. The findings shed light on how mood affects language processing.

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·January 7, 2023·4 min read

Speech Analysis Can Help Measure Diagnosis, Severity, and Onset of Mental Illness

Speech pattern analysis can help accurately diagnose depression and psychosis, measure the severity of symptoms, and predict the onset of mental health conditions.

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·December 22, 2022·8 min read

A New Model Explains Difficulty in Language Comprehension

Using advances in machine learning, researchers have created a new model that predicts the ease with which individuals produce and comprehend complex sentences.

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·December 9, 2022·5 min read

Early Predictors of Children’s Language Delays

The specific types of words children learn first can be a predictor of early language difficulties.

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·December 6, 2022·2 min read

The Universal Sound of Swearing Across Languages

Across different languages, swear words tend to lack l, r, and w sounds. Researchers say the approximants, or common pattern of the sounds, are less suitable than other sounds for giving offense.

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·December 5, 2022·4 min read

How the Broca’s Area of the Brain Helps Children Easily Learn Grammar

The development of a child's general and grammatical linguistic abilities between the ages of 3 to 4 is accompanied by the maturation of brain structures within the "language network".