We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

When your brain encounters sensory stimuli, such as the scent of your morning coffee or the sound of a honking car, that input gets shuttled to the appropriate brain region for analysis. The coffee ...

Walking home on Feb. 25, 1980 after lunching with future French president François Mitterand, Roland Barthes – one of the great French intellectuals of the last century – was struck by a laundry van, ...

This article examines claims made for the monitor model with regard to the function of conscious grammar rules as mechanisms which control the quality of the learner's language production under ...

LANGUAGE has been a subject of interest not only for linguists but also anthropologists, biologists and culture-study specialists. During different periods of history, fundamental questions have been ...

A stroke in a baby -- even a big one -- does not have the same lasting impact as a stroke in an adult. A study found that a decade or two after a 'perinatal' stroke damaged the left 'language' side of ...