psycholinguistics

The Unspoken Tutor: How Games Teach Language

How do video games teach us to navigate new worlds and master complex actions without a single word of instruction?…

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The Scribe’s Mistake: Errors in Medieval Texts

Before the printing press, every book was a handmade original, and every scribe made mistakes. Far from being mere blemishes,…

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The Child Who Forgot to Speak: Childhood L1 Attrition

We often worry about losing a second language, but what happens when a child starts to forget their first? First-language…

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The Milliseconds Before You Speak

Before a single sound leaves your lips, your brain performs an incredible series of high-speed calculations. In just a few…

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10 UX Writing Rules from Linguistics

Every button, menu, and error message you read is a piece of micro-linguistics. This article reveals 10 crucial rules of…

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Spot the Bot: 10 Cues of Deepfake Audio

As AI voice cloning masters the art of imitation, telling human from machine is becoming a crucial skill. This guide…

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Top 10 Linguistics Jobs for 2025

Think a linguistics degree only leads to a career in academia or translation? Think again. This article explores the top…

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The Brain’s Autocorrect: Error Repair in Speech

We constantly misspeak, yet our conversations flow with surprising smoothness. This is thanks to "speech repair", the brain's subconscious autocorrect…

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The Accent Ceiling: Does Your Voice Limit Your Pay?

Beyond the glass ceiling lies a more subtle barrier: the accent ceiling. Sociolinguistic and economic research reveals how subconscious bias…

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Speaking Under Pressure: Deep-Sea Linguistics

The famous "Donald Duck voice" of deep-sea divers isn't just a funny quirk; it's a dangerous communication barrier caused by…

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