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 ...

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

One Friday in 1977, a 1-year-old named Nathaniel living in Leiden, in the Netherlands, said “mawh,” which his English-speaking parents enthusiastically greeted as his first word. It came with ...

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, ...

Hearing her son’s first words, Jill Smalldon could finally tell herself: “You’re going to get your kid back.” Sam Smalldon, a student-athlete at West Ottawa High School, has spent nearly ...

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.