In order to speak a language as adults do, children need to have acquired five areas of linguistic competence: Phonology, Lexis, Semantics, Grammar and Pragmatics. Phonological development is the ...

Over 35,000 years, these separate groupings developed verbal and symbolic ... sapiens (who nonetheless already possessed 'language-ready' brains acquired at the origin of the anatomically ...

One of the really important thingsabout language learning is that it's funand that it involves play. And we find that a great way of doing thatis by introducing stories and translation. So all of ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Two overall goals of this paper are a) to provide a linguistic basis for promoting first language maintenance of Vietnamese in a larger ...

Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation ...

The language acquisition and learning research cluster includes researchers with interests in language acquisition, language learning, and domain general cognitive development. Our members investigate ...