Why is language uniquely human? As mentioned in previous posts, chimpanzees can’t learn language because they can’t learn to name things. Only humans can. We’ve also argued that an infant’s ...

Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in conversations, using clues from the overall context to infer a new word's ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study by Brown University researchers found very young infants used their own names and at least one other highly familiar name – usually a name associated with their mothers ...