English is indisputably the world language today, and how it got to be so is a topic well worth discussing, but in this ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

A new study challenges the idea that language stems from a single evolutionary root. Instead, it proposes that our ability to communicate evolved through the interaction of biology and culture, and ...

The preschool classroom hums softly. At one table, small hands press into cool, damp clay. “It’s sticky!” says one child, laughing. “Mine’s flat,” adds another, patting the surface. The teacher leans ...