The ease with which young children learn object nouns suggests that they possess strategies to identify properties critical to lexical category membership. In previous work, young children used a same ...

Vol. 26, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Learning Context and its Effects on Second Language Acquisition (June 2004), pp. 227-248 (22 pages) Context of learning, such as whether a learner studies a second ...

Word “edges” are important for language acquisition. Children start to learn the sound of words by remembering the first and last syllables. A new study sheds light on the information the infant brain ...

This week, ExpLing RG will discuss word learning, and word recognition and lexical representation. They will discuss the following papers: Fennell, C. T., Byers-Heinlein, K. and Werker, J. F. (2007), ...

Music is often considered a universal language, as it crosses language barriers and connects people all over the world with ease. In fact, songs are popularly used in foreign language classrooms as a ...