By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

Current school-based mental health support for children from multilingual backgrounds can be "lost in translation" because it is reliant on good proficiency in English, a new study warns. The work ...

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - While most people speak only one language or perhaps two, some are proficient in many. These people are called polyglots. And they are helping to provide insight into ...

Analyses of self-paced reading times reveal that linguistic prediction deteriorates under limited executive resources, with this resource sensitivity becoming markedly more pronounced with advancing ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

Nearly two million children in the UK are affected by early language delays. New research will examine whether noise in nurseries is a hidden factor. An estimated 1.9 million children across the UK ...

Current school-based mental health support for children from multilingual backgrounds can be “lost in translation” because it is reliant on good proficiency in English, a new study warns.

The research suggests that dogs have the neurological capacity to eavesdrop and learn new words when they hear humans talking ...