by Christine Kenneally BH | May 27, 2010 | Bilinguals, Brain, Common sense, Evolution, Intonation, Plasticity, Words
"Rawa-dawa!" And other words. In this week's cover story at New Scientist.
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 24, 2007 | Infants, Intonation, Motherese, Rhesus monkey
LiveScience brings together two fascinating studies on motherese–the swooping, exagerated way that mothers speak to their babies. In the first study, scientists played different examples of English baby-talk to a group of non-literate, hunter-horticulturalists...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Aug 24, 2007 | Infants, Intonation
Young babies don’t do a lot, but every year we discover there is a lot more going on inside than you can tell. The latest news is that four-month-olds already have an idea about the shape of a word. EEG measurement showed that infants this young recognize...
