Screen time may slow learning skills, study finds
Screens are a part of daily life for many families—but too much screen time in the early years could slow a child's language development, a new study suggests.
Jul 7, 2025
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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms: News and Research on Language Development
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Baby talk is real: Adults speak differently to babies in at least 10 different languages
There are many factors that contribute to infant language development, not least of which is baby talk—the modified speech mothers and other adults often use when speaking to infants.
Jun 10, 2025
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Is there a right way to talk to your baby? A baby brain expert explains 'parentese'
You might have seen those heartwarming and often funny viral videos where parents or caregivers engage in long "talks" with young babies about this and that—usually just fun chit chat of no great consequence.
Jun 2, 2025
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Infants as young as 15 months can learn new words for unseen objects
Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in conversations, using clues from the overall context to infer a new word's meaning.
Apr 23, 2025
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Study links executive function to language skills in young children
A young child's ability to regulate behavior—a component of executive functioning, the cognitive processes that help with planning, focus, and self-control—is related to how they process and acquire language, according to ...
Apr 8, 2025
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Good parenting helps, but has limits under major deprivation
Good parenting can make all the difference as newborns learn to communicate and process information, and an increasing amount of early-childhood development research has shown that parent training is a worthy investment to ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Excessive screen time linked to lower language development in toddlers
A collaboration of researchers from 20 nations has found that toddlers exceed recommended screen time limits, with television and smartphones being the most frequently used devices. Higher screen exposure was associated with ...
The power of babble: Babies elicit simpler speech from adults
How do babies learn to talk? Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech significantly in response to babies' babbling and early speech—an exchange that appears fundamental to early language development, ...
Feb 6, 2025
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COVID lockdowns disrupted a crucial social skill among preschoolers, study finds
Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of "what it's doing to us" research, focused largely on schoolchildren. How were students' ...
Jan 30, 2025
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Babies as young as 4 months can tell how the sounds of different languages are made
Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing together clues about the world around them. If you've ever noticed your baby staring at you while you talk, it's because they're picking up on more than just sounds—they're ...
Jan 29, 2025
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