For more than a century, scholars have repeated a powerful idea: that the mistakes children make when learning to speak are ...

For decades, scholars believed children’s speech errors were the seeds of language change, but new research challenges that ...

Technical Terms Interactional Competence: The ability to effectively manage the flow of conversation, including turn-taking, topic management, and repair strategies.

Why do, in a world of developing AI technology, human interaction remains such an important part of language learning outcomes?

Theoretical study by Limor Raviv, Damian Blasi and Vera Kempe, argues that children are not likely to be the main force behind linguistic innovation. For more than a century, scholars have repeated a ...