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

Most dog owners know the thrill of saying a favorite word and watching ears perk up instantly. New research suggests some dogs may be doing something even more impressive, picking up new object words ...

This is not comparable to word learning in children. By around age two, typical English-speaking children learn approximately ...

If you've ever had to spell out words like W-A-L-K or T-R-E-A-T around a dog, you know that some dogs listen in to humans' chitchat and can pick out certain key words. Well, it turns out that some ...

Typical family dogs can understand action words such as ‘sit’, but not words that describe objects. Shany Dror at the ...

New research led by academics at Royal Holloway, University of London, published in Developmental Science, suggests that children and adolescents remain excited by learning new words, all the way ...