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Children are astonishing language learners. Long before they can read or write, they begin to pick up words, patterns, and rules from the world around them. What makes this achievement even more ...

For a year and a half, a baby named Sam wore a headcam in weekly sessions that captured his world: a spoon zooming toward his mouth, a caregiver squealing “Whee!” as he whizzed down an orange slide or ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...