Language is weird, strange, wonderful, intricate, innovative, confusing, complex, and most of all, multi-layered. There are so many layers and factors that intertwine to create new pieces of language ...

Written and spoken language can exist separately in the brain, a new study from Johns Hopkins shows. The study looked at stroke victims with aphasia that impaired their communication capabilities in ...

Over 70 million deaf people use sign languages as their preferred communication form. Although they access similar brain structures as spoken languages, it hasn't been identified the brain regions ...

Learner corpus studies using syntactic complexity as a construct for characterizing learner proficiency have found ¿hat higher proficiency permits learners to produce more complex syntactic structures ...

A study has found there is no difference in the time it takes people from different countries to read and process different languages. A study led by the University of Southampton has found there is ...

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