As copyeditor here at Gear Patrol, I’m responsible for the words. All the words. All the thousands of words that you read every day (if you’re loyal) on this esteemed publication. So by the nature of ...

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Ready for a test? A research study with an online vocabulary test for people in the Netherlands went viral after nationwide television coverage. In the weekend after the TV exposure, more than 300,000 ...

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Dr Adam Schembri, Professor of Linguistics, explains the importance of studying the science of language to mark World Linguistics Day.

Paul Morgan is an associate professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Along with a team at Penn State and colleagues at the University of California, ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

Forget pulling all-nighters: There's a more restive way to cram for tests. New research by neuroscientists at Northwestern University in Chicago shows people can actually learn while they're asleep.