Psycholinguistics

Hearing with Your Eyes: The McGurk Effect and the Illusions of Speech Perception

What happens when your eyes and ears receive conflicting information? The McGurk effect is a powerful illusion where seeing a…

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Accent on Belonging: The Unique Linguistic Identity of Third Culture Kids

Explore the fascinating world of Third Culture Kids (TCKs), individuals whose lives are a tapestry of languages and cultures. Their…

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The “If” That Changes Everything: How Counterfactuals and the Subjunctive Mood Built Science

What if the ability to say "if" was a prerequisite for science itself? This post explores how counterfactuals and the…

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The Agent and the Patient: How Transitivity Shapes Blame and Responsibility

Who broke the window? The choice between saying "The boy broke the window" and "The window broke" is more than…

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Classifying Reality: The Social Impact of Noun Classes and Grammatical Gender

Beyond the simple "he/she/it" of English, many languages categorize the world in ways that are deeply tied to culture and…

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The Future Tense That Never Was: How Languages Without a Future Tense Shape Planning and Perception

Did you know that many languages, like Mandarin Chinese and Finnish, get by perfectly well without a grammatical future tense?…

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A Blind Mind’s Eye: How People with Aphantasia Experience Language

How does someone who cannot form mental images understand a phrase like "a forest of emerald green"? This post explores…

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Freudian Slips or Brain Glitches? What Slips of the Tongue Reveal About How We Organize Language

When you accidentally say "a lack of pies" instead of "a pack of lies," what's really happening? While Freud saw…

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The World in a Different Order: How Subject-Object-Verb Languages Challenge Our Linguistic Assumptions

For most English speakers, "The dog chased the cat" is the only logical way to say it. But what if…

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The Grammar of the Bees: Do Animals Truly Have Language?

We marvel at the honeybee's 'waggle dance' and the intricate alarm calls of prairie dogs, but do these complex systems…

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