Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...
Research suggests that infants who are better at detecting rhythm in music are also better at recognizing patterns in ...
A research team at the University of Cambridge has announced that singing songs is important for infants to learn language because infants' language acquisition is not through phonemes but through ...
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Parents should speak to babies in sing-song speech to help them learn language, experts have said. Scientists from the University of Cambridge have found that infants learn languages from rhythmic ...
A newborn lies in the maternity ward of the Lens hospital, northern France. A study of crying mice could help explain some building blocks of human infant cries and adult speech. (Philippe Huguen | ...
Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different ...