Do you know how to use do up, do over, or do without? In this lesson, Claire teaches six of the most common English phrasal ...

Parents can help toddlers' language skills by showing them a variety of examples of different actions, according to new research. Previous research has shown that verbs pose particular difficulties to ...

Using modified clips from the program Sesame Beginnings, researchers studied children's ability -- with and without adult support -- to learn a new verb and apply that word to a new scene. The ...

Three experiments provided evidence that 3.5- to 4-year-old English-speaking children (N = 72) attend to the appearances of novel objects, not only when they hear a novel noun, but also when they hear ...

Phrasal verbs are verbs with more than one word like 'wake up' and 'look forward to'. There are hundreds of them in English and they can be quite tricky... But don't freak out! Georgie is going to ...

Which verbs do we use with 'problem'?

The present research examined how 3- and 5-year-old Japanese children map novel nouns and verbs onto dynamic action events and generalize them to new instances. Studies 1 to 3 demonstrated that ...