Linguistic structures and syntax form the cornerstone of our understanding of human language, delineating the formal rules that govern sentence formation and meaning. This area of research ...

In the popular view, a language is merely a fixed stock of words. Purists worry about foreign loanwords; conservatives decry slang; and groundless claims that there are hundreds of Eskimo words for ...

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 ...