Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...
A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...
IN 1747 Samuel Johnson issued a plan for a new dictionary of the English language. It was supported by the most distinguished printers of the day and was dedicated to the model of all correctness, ...
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 ...
THE ancient notion of English grammar was one of certain categories of words, and certain rules for their proper use. This is still the idea implied in most of the dictionary definitions of the word.