Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...
A recent study published in the journal Cell provides evidence that the human brain uses a shared organizational map, or ...
The way a language encodes gender suggests a subtle link to how its speakers view their own personalities. A recent study ...
A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...