Certain types of interactions between parents and babies result in greater infant vocabulary.
Working memory for language processing can be provided by the down-regulation of neural excitability in response to external input.
Computerized language analysis reveals linguistic markers of depression were found in Poe's personal letters and professional writing, but none are consistent with suicidal ideations.
Study reports it may be possible to detect the onset and progression of Huntington's disease through linguistic changes in patients. Linguistic impairments often begin before the onset of other Huntington's symptoms.
Second language learners can hear pronunciation errors fellow learners make but tend to overestimate the quality of their own pronunciation.
Parents who speak to their infant in parentese, or baby-talk, help increase their child's language acquisition skills.
Linguistic analytic models found users who tweet about loneliness post significantly more frequently about mental health concerns, relationship problems, and insomnia.
Reviewing over thirty years of diaries from a patient diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, linguists discover how writing style changes as dementia progresses.
While being multilingual did not delay the onset of dementia for those at risk, nuns who spoke four or more languages were significantly less likely to develop dementia than those who spoke just one language.
Living in a linguistically diverse environment helps promote more effective learning of new languages for monolingual people.
According to a new machine learning algorithm, men are typically described in terms that refer to their behavior, while women are referred to in terms associated with physical appearance in fiction and non-fiction.
Both adults and young children assign a narrower interpretation to a word if it is exemplified by an atypical category member. The study sheds new light on how children learn to see, talk and understand the world around them.
