Some of the words are cutesy (kerfuffle, jubilee). Others are onomatopoeic, with a similar sound to the idea they’re ...

New research shows that 15-month-old infants can understand words for unseen objects, revealing how babies learn through ...

We caught up with speech and language therapist Janet Cooper to learn more about how children come to say their first words, how parents can help them on their way and ways they can support ...

Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in ...

Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen.