Lexical stress plays a pivotal role in language processing by influencing how words are segmented, recognised, and accessed in the mental lexicon. Variations in stress patterns, realised through ...
In a new article appearing in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows ...
Recent studies have highlighted divergent change as a more common outcome of language contact than previously thought. While convergent change is often attributed to bilingual cognitive pressures, ...