There's a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become ...

Sleep is critical for all sorts of reasons, but a team of international scientists has discovered a new incentive for getting eight hours of sleep every night: it helps the brain to store and learn a ...

The hand movement is a visual cue meant to help the 13 English learners in the class of 19 students grasp the meaning of the complex word. Gomez learned the trick from Olga Dietz, who co-teaches with ...

Millions of Hispanic professionals doubt a language they've spoken their whole lives. That doubt has a name, and it isn't ...

We often treat learning as something that can be accessed with enough motivation and discipline. But learning depends on something more basic: whether the nervous system is in a state that allows for ...

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

The former APS president asked ChatGPT to describe its implicit biases. Its answer steered her research in a whole new ...

In an era marked by widening linguistic inequality, intensified global mobility, and the continued marginalization of linguistically diverse communities - ...