Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study, researchers report that ...

If Kim Jong Il plays charades, his hand gestures might look just like George Bush’s, a new study suggests. It seems that, regardless of the sentence structure of their native tongue, non-verbal ...

In a previous essay, we started a discourse on MORPHEME AND ITS RELEVANCE TO SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION. Today, we conclude the discourse from INFLECTIONAL AND DERIVATIONAL MORPHEMES. Before we proceed, we ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS Biology, scientists from the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics, Donders ...