For years, researchers have known that young children pick up words just by being around conversation. Toddlers do not need ...

Some dogs can learn new object names by overhearing human conversation, highlighting advanced learning skills also seen in ...

Imagine Max, a well-trained border collie, manages to ignore a squirrel in the park when his owner tells him to sit. His ...

Ideophones, or words that sound like what they mean—words whose sound evokes the sensory experience they describe, like swish or twinkle—are easier to learn than other words, a new study finds. The ...