Children learn demonstratives that call others’ attention to objects – such as ‘this/that’ and ‘here/there’ – at extremely young ages.

A team of AI researchers has developed an AI application to help historians fill in the gaps of text missing from stone and metal artifacts

Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study finds

Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation.

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.

No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer.

Are a child’s long-term language skills shaped by how their brain develops during infancy, and how much is influenced by their environment

Research has shown that a music-related hobby boosts language skills and affects the processing of speech in the brain.