A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re improvising. “Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Joshua Plotkin, a biology professor at the University of ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Language was created to make communication easier. However, the scenario we face today is quite different. Millennials often ...

KCRW Reports California accents are way more complex than you think A project called Los Angeles Speaks is looking at how language evolves and affects communities, including neighborhoods impacted by ...