Everyone knows it’s a good idea to get kids to learn a foreign language.
But lots of Australian kids already speak a foreign language — at home. Yet these ‘mother tongues’ are losing ground to English. How do we encourage …
Category: language acquisition (page 4 of 5)
There’s a lot of data out there.
And people are using it to find some pretty interesting patterns. Whether it’s finding global superdialects, or inferring language similarity from the errors of English learners, computers are expanding our language horizons.
Linguist …
Anyone who’s tried to learn a foreign language knows that it can take a lot of work.
Yet children seem to learn languages easily. How do they do it? And why should you try learning a language?
Linguist Daniel Midgley…
Many people talk about language revitalisation, but some people are doing something about it.
Perth musicians Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse have released a new album Kalyakoorl, written in the Noongar language of Western Australia, and it’s bringing the …
Children seem to soak up language, even the things we’d rather they not say.
What do you do about your child’s swearing? And does using sign language help babies talk earlier?
Linguist Daniel Midgley is down with the kids on …
Are we hard-wired for language?
New studies have found that infants (and even adults) seem predisposed to certain combinations of sounds and words. But is this evidence for innateness, or is there another explanation?
Linguist Daniel Midgley takes us into …
There’s a new way to learn a language on the Internet for free.
It’s called Duolingo. You learn by translating sentences. And as you learn, you and millions of other users will participate in translating documents on the web. It’s …
Children learn language pretty fast.
But a new study shows that babies who are even a few hours old can tell the difference between their mother tongue and other languages. How do they do it?
Linguist Daniel Midgley gets in …
Language lovers are buzzing about the new government white paper: Australia in the Asian Century.
It’s got language learning at its heart. So why are linguists cautious about its content? How hard can it be to learn a language, …
We like to think of ourselves as rational beings that can make decisions more or less free of bias.
But research shows that language can influence our perception in subtle ways — either for good or for bad. Even our …
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