The rules of grammar you follow while speaking may not reflect what you're thinking. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that speakers ...

There are two striking features of language that any scientific theory of this quintessentially human behavior must account for. The first is that we do not all speak the same language. This would be ...

It's widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our brains.

What languages sounded like before a few thousand years ago is one of the great unsolvable mysteries of modern science. Now two linguists have come up with a bold hypothesis: the speakers of the ...

English and Korean differ in grammar, sentence structure, and cultural expression, making learning and translation between ...

The mind appears to have a consistent way of organizing an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.