Testing young children's vocabulary? There's an app for that!

This app for Android and iOS allows you to collect a sample of the words your child knows to get a sense of how strong his or her vocabulary is. — dpa

Young children are like sponges when it comes to learning new words. But is it possible to analyse just how much vocabulary even very young children already have?

Researchers at the Universities of Goettingen in Germany and Oslo in Norway think so. In fact they’ve developed an app, called Babylex, to do exactly that.