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Does it help babies to understand that different objects (such as different dinosaurs) belong together into a category when they hear them all being called ‘dinosaur’? And what if they instead hear…

It may not come as a surprise to many when I say that language is a crucial tool for children’s social interactions. But what might be surprising is that different languages might have different ways…

Our conversational interactions with children are hugely beneficial to their development. Children often repeat the words and sentence structures that they hear adults use with them, and this helps…

With Austin’s reputation as a world class technology hub, I recall feeling a bit of imposter syndrome upon arrival for my 8 week visit to The Computational Linguistics Lab at The University of Austin…

The aim of my 8 week visit to Austin was to collaborate with an expert on computational linguistics, Kyle Mahowald (pictured holding his dog ‘Fogo’). In this blog post, I'll discuss why computational…