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Lecturer in Linguistics, School of Education, Language and Psychology, York St John University Talking is one of the most complex actions the human body performs, yet the process of turning thoughts ...

Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries ...

We love featuring games on the Morning Mix, whether it be locally-made or in the zeitgeist of popular culture. Word Teasers puts the phone down and takes cards into conversations, allowing for deeper ...

We love featuring games on the Morning Mix, whether it be locally-made or in the zeitgeist of popular culture. Word Teasers puts the phone down and takes cards into conversations, allowing for deeper ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

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 ...

I had a junior high English teacher who had an unusual love for teaching prepositions. At that time, we were warned to never end sentences in prepositions, so she wanted us to be clear about how to ...

The puzzle game genre is unbelievably vast, including everything from cozy mobile titles and daily brain teasers to dark puzzle-platformers and detective games. As a result, trying to narrow down the ...

In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying. By Carl Zimmer Carl Zimmer writes the “Origins” column for The New ...

We love testing our brains every day. Whether it's with a tricky puzzle, learning a new language or doing a simple sudoku (emphasis on the simple here). And one of the easiest and most fun ways to ...