But how human children acquire language-which is so complex and has so many variations-remains largely a mystery. Fifty years ago, linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky proposed an answer: ...

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People need language to fully understand numbers. This discovery – long suspected, and now backed by strong evidence – may shed light on the way children acquire their number sense.

In the late 1990s, a team of neuroscientists at MIT led by Mriganka Sur undertook an audacious experiment: they rewired the brain of a ferret, so that the information from its retina was plugged ...

And when you encode language that way you create a sense of us and them," he says. Woods says that can have larger sociological and societal consequences. "In this case, ...

An endangered language spoken mostly by an elderly population can now be heard from the mouths of kindergartners in a room at Lowell Elementary School. There are 12 students in the new Ojibwe ...

Quebec Language Debate Spurs Eerie Sense of Déjà-Vu For a Montreal-based Times correspondent, proposed language legislation brings back memories of the 1970s. Share full article ...

It all began in 2004 when the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government declared Tamil as a classical language, followed by Sanskrit (2005), Kannada (2008), Telugu (2008), Malayalam (2013 ...