SMU's singular approach to integrating rigorous learning with hands-on experience will prepare you to achieve your educational goals and expand your world in ways you never imagined. Ours is a ...

Aesop Rock is a star on various subreddits, but the under-the-radar rapper is the undisputed champion of verbosity. "Aesop Rock uses so many unique words in his music that it's hard to design an ...

Eavesdropping on their owners seems to help some toy-crazy and talented pups learn more words. Eavesdropping on their owners seems to help some toy-crazy and talented pups learn more words. Miso, a ...

Arya, a six-year-old border collie in Italy, can learn a new toy’s name with just one or two mentions. Her owners say she even knows words for her favorite foods; when pizza is on the menu, the word ...

CHICAGO — Anyone who has witnessed a 3-year-old imitate a rude hand signal from his car seat knows that young children are perfectly capable of picking up gestures from adults. New research suggests ...

The clues that parents give toddlers about words can make a big difference in how deep their vocabularies are when they enter school, new research shows. By using words to reference objects in the ...

“Words of nuance, words of skill/Words of romance are a thrill/Words are stupid, words are fun/Words can put you on the run…” What are words worth? So asked pop band Tom Tom Club in their 1981 hit, ...

It is informative to look at where the preponderance of words fall within a language. We all know about the somewhat apocryphal plethora of Inuit words for snow (many of which describe the varying ...

Babies might understand language better than scientists thought. The fact that the children were more confused by related images reflects that they somehow understand that the concepts are related, ...