A child’s first words mark a big milestone in life, and a topic of great curiosity for science. Now researchers have determined that these early stabs at verbal language are informed by what a ...

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 ...

For most children, their first words tend to be things they experience regularly in their environment. And for a lot of children, that means that ‘mama’ or ‘dada’ is word number one.

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

His first word was "piz," his baby pronunciation of lápiz, the Spanish word for "pencil." He would say it in order to get his mother to give him a pencil, ...

Since no one can predict how famous a baby might turn out to be, the first words of the famous are often left unrecorded. But that doesn’t mean they are always lost to history.