What determines what word a baby says first? Also of interest is why babies say the first words they do and whether there's anything parents can do to help once a baby starts talking.Nagata says ...

Mallory Wilkerson woke up to a strange tingling in her hands and feet — like they had fallen asleep overnight. Not long after ...

Babies usually say their first words between 12 and 18 months, Dr. Beth Oller tells USA TODAY. But speech education doesn't start there. "Babies start playing with sounds long before they can form ...

Scholars have deciphered some of the first words from a Herculaneum scroll burned and buried in AD 79 during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. One of the first words, written in ancient Greek, was ...

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A 2013 study found 23 English words whose roots are cognates in four or more major language families, meaning that they probably developed from a single root, so these are some of the earliest and ...

Indeed, in another link between first and last words, Mr Erard argues that dying people lose their verbal faculties in a way resembling the child’s language learning but in reverse.

According to the “ding-dongists,” man’s first words were based on the characteristic sounds made by objects when they are struck (e.g., the splash of water).

First words are also a matter of interpretation. Babies speak protophones first—sounds that aren’t quite words but that we might read as the “runway of his creative experimentation.” ...