Splish-splash, boing, bang, thud, sparkle, and pitter-patter are all fun words to say — they also happen to sound exactly like their definition. A study published recently in the Journal of ...

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 ...

Made-up words like “clisious” and “smanious” are easier to remember when they sound beautiful. Could the feel of a word shape how we learn languages, sell products and even how languages evolve?

Growing up in a multilingual home has many advantages, but many parents worry that exposure to multiple languages might delay language acquisition. New research could now lay some of these ...

Isabel Simmons helps children build, read and write words with the short i vowel sound. In this video, learn about short i words with Isabel Simmons. Together, build, read and write words like pin, ...

Research on the learning process for acquiring two languages from birth found differences in how bilingual babies learned words compared to monolingual babies. The research suggests that bilingual ...

It’s true that there are plenty of messaging services out there already but this new app makes it easy to expand your lexicon and learn new words as you chat with your comrades. It’s fairly ...

Aviva Segal receives funding from The Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQSC). Sandra Martin-Chang received funding from SSCHRC. Concordia University provides funding as a founding ...

According to most reading programs, learning to read is largely a guessing game. That approach prevents many students from learning to sound words out, with dire consequences later on. Many educators ...