Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...

Washington, DC – 21 February 2024 – About 7,000 – that is how many languages people around the globe speak. More than 350 – that is the number of “mother languages” in the United States, a number that ...

The study, which examined 121 babies aged three to twelve months in Accra, the capital of Ghana, demonstrates a remarkable variety of language input in the early months of life. The children are ...