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At the point that children utter their first words, a complex set of conceptual, social and linguistic mental capacities are at work, Yale researcher Paul Bloom reports in his new book, “How Children ...

Sometimes life, with the aid of an unrelenting news cycle, can feel like an exercise in parsing out the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depressed, lonely or stressed? Tim ...

The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

Kids%27 Vocab teaches words through nine different games The Opposites teaches antonyms SAT Word Slam explains the definitions of new words Between weekly spelling tests and looming SATs, kids need to ...

More than 40 years ago, psychologists found signs that children living in noisy places were having trouble learning to read. They suspected that the noise interfered with language learning. Now, their ...

Benitez said the researchers create a game simulating different environments: one monolingual and the other bilingual. They assign fake names for certain objects, introducing the child in the ...

“Based on their training data, they just model the probability that a given token, or word, will follow a set of tokens that ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

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