The way a language encodes gender suggests a subtle link to how its speakers view their own personalities. A recent study ...

The world of brain research has a secret flaw. For decades, studies into how the mind works have been carried out primarily by English-speaking scientists on English-speaking participants. Yet their ...

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once.

Language plays an increasingly important role in search. Revealing the similarities and differences between languages through network science might seem daunting, but researchers at the Tokyo ...

There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive ...