Babies Learning Language
Welcome to our blog about babies and language (or more fancily stated: infant psycholinguistics)!
We are a group of researchers (the Bergelson lab, part of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies at Harvard University) who study how babies learn language from the world around them. We use lots of different methods to do this: we measure what infants see and sense at home and in the lab, and what brain-signals they give off. Our goal is to get a better understanding of when and how infants learn their native language(s)–which is pretty magical. Check in every month for more posts!
We’ll be focusing on posts looking at infants and language learning, both within typical development, and in the case of infants who have severe-to-profound vision loss or severe-to-profound hearing loss.
This blog is tied to our educational outreach efforts, as part of a grant from the National Science Foundation, for which we are very grateful!