Artificial intelligence is starting to do more than transcribe what we say. By learning to read the brain’s own electrical ...

A study from Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences revisits a long-standing idea in language science that speech sounds from one's native language elicit stronger brain responses than ...

As morphemes are the smallest phonetic and semantic word formation units in Chinese, the study of morphemes has always been an important part of Chinese language acquisition research. Taking Chinese ...

A new Australian study is the first to find that morphology instruction in the primary classroom can lead to improvements in children’s spelling of ‘untaught’ and known words, while also boosting ...

Abstract: We have empirically discovered that the space of human actions has a linguistic framework. This is a sensory-motor space consisting of the evolution of the joint angles of the human body in ...

Quartiles is a secret game available to Apple News+ members in the most recent iOS 17.5 beta. In order to make the best words, players must match word fragments in five-by-five tiles. It looks and ...

While working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., the late cognitive neuroscientist Ursula Bellugi discovered that, much like spoken language, sign language was made up ...

Phoneme awareness is the ability to break down words into distinct sounds and determine where each sound falls in the breakdown of a word. This awareness can emerge fairly spontaneously for certain ...

As students are expected to read more challenging texts, the academic language they contain can be daunting. But a certain type of vocabulary instruction could help students break tricky words down ...