Psycholinguistics

The Buffalo Sentence: Grammar Pushed to the Edge

This post breaks down the famous linguistic puzzle: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." We explore how a…

3 days ago

Semantic Satiation: When Words Lose Meaning

Have you ever repeated a word so many times that it started to sound like nonsense? This psychological phenomenon is…

3 days ago

The Stroop Effect: A Bilingual Brain Test

Ever tried to say the color of a word when the text itself spells a different color? This is the…

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Mirror Neurons: The Brain’s Imitation Engine

Discover how a serendipitous discovery involving monkeys and peanuts revolutionized our understanding of linguistics. We dive into the science of…

3 days ago

Dyslexia in Logograms: Reading Differences in Chinese

While Western dyslexia is primarily a phonological challenge involving sound-letter mapping, research shows that dyslexia in Chinese functions differently, impacting…

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The Hierarchy of Color: Why ‘Red’ Always Beats ‘Blue’

Why do almost all languages develop a word for "Red" before they create a word for "Blue"? This post explores…

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Stuttering John’s Lost Language

In the 10th century, an envoy named John of Gorze adopted a radical language-learning strategy: two years of total silence…

1 month ago

The Forbidden Experiment: Feral Children

From an Egyptian pharaoh to a Holy Roman Emperor, history is dotted with cruel attempts to discover humanity's "natural" language…

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The Keyboard That Looked Like a Piano

Before QWERTY conquered the world, the first typewriter prototype had keys arranged in two simple rows like a piano. This…

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The First Family of Esperanto

L. L. Zamenhof may have invented Esperanto, but he didn't bring it to life alone. This is the story of…

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