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The Hidden Logic of Baby Babble

Is a baby's babbling just adorable, random noise? Far from it. Linguists have discovered that babbling is a highly structured…

4 months ago

Speaking with Hands and Mouth

In central Australia, the Arandic peoples use a complex sign language alongside speech, a system developed for times when speech…

4 months ago

The Linguistics of Lying

That moment a child tells their first lie—"Who ate the cookie?" "Not me!"—is more than just mischief. It's a monumental…

4 months ago

The Bilingual Inner Voice: Who Is Talking?

For bilinguals, the advice to "think in the language" opens a fascinating cognitive puzzle. The voice inside our heads is…

4 months ago

Language Ghosts: L2 to L3 Interference

Ever tried to speak your third language, only for a word from your second language to slip out? This phenomenon,…

4 months ago

The Horse Raced Past the Barn Fell: Parsing Garden-Path Sentences

Read this sentence: "The horse raced past the barn fell." If you had to read it twice, your brain just…

4 months ago

The Gestural Lexicon: When Hand Signs Become Words

We do it without thinking: a thumbs-up for a job well done, a wave to say hello. But these hand…

4 months ago

Feeling Speech: The Tadoma Method

Imagine a conversation without sound or sight, where words aren't heard but are understood through the delicate dance of vibrations…

4 months ago

The Language of Scent

We can recall scents with startling clarity, yet we struggle to describe them, a phenomenon known as the olfactory-verbal gap.…

4 months ago

How Your Brain Reads This Sentence

The seemingly simple act of reading this sentence is a neurological miracle, a high-speed dance between your eyes and your…

4 months ago

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