Dec. 10 (UPI) --Speaking "baby talk" to infants not only helps parents and caregivers connect with the young ones in their charge, but it may also help babies learn to make words, a study published ...

For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Even young children know what typical dogs and fish look like — and they apply that knowledge when they hear new words, reports a team from the Princeton Baby Lab, where researchers study how babies ...

Babies might start learning the words for objects at around six to nine months old. In a new study, an A.I. was also able to match some objects to their names after getting trained on video recordings ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...

My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...