Phonology – the systematic organisation of sounds in language – plays a critical role in language acquisition, reflecting the interplay between innate predispositions and environmental input. Research ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

Reading really does begin at home. And with a little love, language, and laughter woven into your daily routines, you are ...

In world’s languages, scientists discover shared links between sound and meaning Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, right, shakes hands with Japanese runners on Aug. 19 at the Olympic Games in Rio de ...

Four-to-seven-year-old children rely on the sounds of new nouns more than on their meaning when assigning them to noun classes, even though the meaning is more predictive of noun class in the adult ...

Humans worldwide might be speaking the same language – sort of. After analyzing word lists covering nearly two-thirds of the world’s languages, researchers found that unrelated languages very often ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), has appeared continuously since 1925 (4 issues per year). It ...