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A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By ...

“We’ve won,” President Trump announced at a rally on March 11, as the widening war in Iran started to rock oil markets and ...

That’s essentially what Dallas’ Pegasus Contemporary Ballet is exploring through its “Common Language” performances happening ...

Learn how early human language relied on simple verb-noun combinations, and how these structures still survive today as clues ...

Multiple regions of the brain engage in fast-moving conversations to understand language, UTHealth Houston researchers have ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

ABSTRACT: 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 ...