From ‘I see!’ to ‘icy’: How babies combine what they see and hear for language learning
An interview with Dr. Melis Cetincelik What was the main question in your dissertation? In
There is no such thing as a gene for language
We are complex in many ways, yet, often, people think about genetics in an over-simplistic
Why do we baby talk?
I recently saw a group of policemen in the supermarket. They were probably grabbing lunch,
New COVID-19-related words as social antibodies keeping our brain busy.
When facing unexpected world changes, as in the case of the current pandemic, the language system adapts to the challenge to express a new reality. How? By forging new words! Let’s find out how this happens by looking at one of the most powerful engines we can count on: our brain.
A handful of vowels for a world of sounds
Sounds are the basic ingredients of spoken language, and the human voice can produce an infinity of different sounds. However, we have only a limited number of possibilities for speech sounds, like consonants and vowels. How do we transform infinity in an alphabet? Let’s dive into categorical perception.