Words matter. They have power; the power to define us, our stories, our relationships. They are how we make meaning of our experiences and sense of our world. It is easy to assume others share our ...

Understanding how the human brain processes and represents spoken language remains an important goal for neuroscientists.

Languages are alive. They stretch, shrink, borrow, adapt, and occasionally surprise us by taking familiar words in completely unexpected directions. A compliment can slowly become an insult. A word ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...