Parents can help toddlers' language skills by showing them a variety of examples of different actions, according to new research. Previous research has shown that verbs pose particular difficulties to ...

Language acquisition has traditionally been considered a social, interactive process, however new research reveals that toddlers are able to acquire the meanings of words even in "socially ...

Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt. The ...

An influential account claims that whereas children have a “coalition of cues” available during word learning, they initially weight perceptual cues more, only later attending to linguistic and social ...

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Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word like 'wake up' and 'look forward to'. There are hundreds of them in English and they can be quite tricky... But don't freak out! Georgie is going to ...