A new genetic study suggests humans developed language at least 135,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early ...

In January and February, New America convened researchers, pediatricians, and educators to discuss the latest guidance.

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic ...

Writing lets us trace language back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology ...

Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and ...

Parenting skills can make a big difference in fostering a newborn's language acquisition and cognition, but there may be a limit to how far parenting can go to make up the challenges to developing ...

English borrows a lot of words from different languages. Words include rendezvous, genre, and even lemon. English is more of ...

A study that examined 121 babies aged three to twelve months in Accra, the capital of Ghana, demonstrates a remarkable variety of language input in the early months of life. The children are regularly ...

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond grasslands. A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ...

Greg lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. A growing number of banks are offering early direct deposit as a feature on their checking accounts. What that means for you is that ...

President Donald Trump indicated on Monday that he intends to go ahead with plans to impose a 25 percent tariff on all Canadian and Mexican goods beginning early next week. “The tariffs are ...