Researchers at the University of Osaka have developed a mechanism that allows spoken dialog systems to learn new words ...

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 ...

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When reading a passage, readers may pause at a particular word or return to reread it. Studies using eye-tracking, which ...

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. And I’m Georgie. For most parents, their baby’s first word is a special moment. This happens after an early stage of language development called ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...