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Stories about: mother tongues

Multilingualism Benefits Children Extensively Researchers in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge say that children who learn to speak two or more languages benefit from more advantages over their peers who only know their mother tongue. Data used for this investigation were collected by the Bilingualism Inform... 5 October 2011 05:02 GMT Babies Learn Language Inside the Womb Speaking to unborn children may be more important than once thought, scientists have recently revealed. They say that children appear to be learning how language works even when inside the womb. Naturally, they cannot talk immediately after they are born, as the vocal chords and the speech center of the brain need to... 6 November 2009 03:45 GMT The Brain of an Arabic Speaker Is Peculiar It would appear that the brains of Arabic speakers do not process Literary Arabic as a mother tongue, but rather as a second language. The conclusion was drawn by experts at the University of Haifa Department of Learning Disabilities, who were led by Dr. Raphiq Ibrahim. He is a scientist at the UH Edmond J. Safra Bra... 4 November 2009 05:53 GMT