mental lexicon

The Speech of Sleep: Is Somniloquy a Language?

Ever wondered if the mumbles and groans of a sleep-talker are just random noise? We take a linguistic deep dive…

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Your Brain’s Internal Fact-Checker

When you hear a false statement like "The sky is green", your brain reacts in milliseconds, long before you consciously…

1 day ago

Kitchen-Table Creole: A Child’s Private Language

Ever heard a bilingual child say something that isn't quite one language or the other? This isn't a mistake, but…

1 week ago

5 Tips to Beat Writer’s Block

Stuck staring at a blank screen? Writer's block isn't a failure of imagination—it's a linguistic puzzle waiting to be solved.…

1 week ago

Linguistic Landmines: The World of Contronyms

Have you ever noticed that a single word can mean its own opposite? These linguistic curiosities, called contronyms, are words…

1 week ago

Metonymy: The Brain’s Ultimate Linguistic Shortcut

Metonymy, where we use a related concept to stand in for the whole (e.g., "The White House announced..."), isn't just…

1 week ago

You’re Already Speaking Japanese! 15 Loanwords

** Did you know that when you talk about a business 'tycoon' or ask for 'just a skosh' more, you're…

1 week ago

The Word on the Tip of Your Tongue

We all know the maddening feeling of a word stuck on the tip of our tongue. This universal frustration isn't…

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

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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