Sentences with phrase «speech acquisition»

So often times you will see problems with speech acquisition, idiosyncratic language, language that is repetitive, problems with back and forth conversation.

Why are there so many parallels between human speech acquisition and vocal production learning in songbirds?

During more than two decades at Rockefeller, Peter Marler, a leader in the field, examined the interplay between the inborn program for song in young birds and the influence of social factors, uncovering parallels to speech acquisition in human babies.

Generally, though, Intellectual Disability becomes apparent to caretakers when the child begins to miss childhood milestones such as speech acquisition.

Summary: In a finding with implications to human speech acquisition, University of Chicago researchers have shown how a bird's brain controls singing and demonstrated for the first time that structures higher up in the brain directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by lower brain centers.

Previous efforts to understand how babies learn to talk had focused on the role of imitation in speech acquisition.

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.

«It's interesting to human biology, because song learning in birds has compelling similarities to speech acquisition.»