Experiments with dogs, chimpanzees and other intelligent animals show that humans aren't the only beings who are able to learn the meanings of words. What distinguishes us is our ability to string ...

The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical ...

When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a ...

Language mixing -- using elements from two languages in the same sentence -- is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and two-year-old children ...

Every sentence in English has words that are stressed and words that are muted (pronounced lightly). Just as word stress helps your audience understand the meaning of the word, sentence stress helps ...

Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he ...

Director of Sales and Strategic Partnerships at ReadyCloud, the Shipping, Returns, Growth Marketing and CRM Suite built for e-commerce. The landscape of B2B SaaS sales is constantly evolving, becoming ...

Once a popular way to teach grammar, the practice of diagramming sentences has fallen out of favor. When you think about a sentence, you usually think about words — not lines. But sentence diagramming ...