By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

In an exclusive interview with Eleven Media, Language Parent, that is the home of Speech Genie, announce the launch of ...

A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

Instead, the meaning of the word comes from the fact that in the mind’s eye (and ear, nose, and hand), we can see the four-legged animal, mentally hear its barking, imagine its particular dog smell, ...

The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct ...

The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is ...

Calling all language lovers for Part 3 of the Advanced English Words quiz! 📖This quiz will put your skills to the test with 32 challenging words. From ‘bellicose’ & ‘quixotic’ to ‘ineffable’ & ...

Traditionally the relation between philosophy and religion has been one either of identity, as in the early Middle Ages, or of hostility, as in the Age of Reason. In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...

Minoan Linear A tablets yield insights into the civilization’s economy and administration without the language being ...

Much has been said about the remarkable ability humans have to extract meaning from language. That ability is remarkable indeed. In a split second, we perceive a spoken or written word and immediately ...