Human brains can sense rhythm and melody from birth, showing music may be part of biology rather than something learned.

Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with different ...

Lots of people automatically speak to babies with a 'baby voice', using a sing-song rhythm and silly sounding words like 'bunny' and 'doggy'. But how does this affect the way babies learn language?

Nathan Hesselink had never heard any of Radiohead's music — a bit unusual, perhaps, for an ethnomusicologist who spends his life immersed in music and studying the people who make it. But in 2008, the ...

All over the world, parents sing songs and recite rhymes to their young children. Researchers have known for some time that this has a stimulating or calming effect on babies, but it turns out that ...