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 practice session, where infants methodically master the sounds, rhythms, and…
Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Is a baby's babbling just adorable, random noise? Far from it. Linguists have discovered that babbling is a highly structured practice session, where infants methodically master the sounds, rhythms, and…
Ever feel like you know thousands of words but still can't understand native speakers? The culprit is often connected speech, the set of "secret" rules that govern how words blend…
Imagine a conversation without sound or sight, where words aren't heard but are understood through the delicate dance of vibrations on your fingertips. This is the world of the Tadoma…
We don't just talk with our mouths; our hands are constantly performing a silent ballet that helps us think, speak, and understand. This article explores co-speech gestures—the universal, unconscious movements…
To an infant, spoken language is a continuous, unbroken river of sound. So how do they learn where one word ends and the next begins? This amazing feat of "speech…
What happens when your eyes and ears receive conflicting information? The McGurk effect is a powerful illusion where seeing a person say one sound while hearing another causes your brain…
Beyond vocabulary lies prosody—the music of speech. From the rising inflection that turns a statement into a question to the sarcastic tone that flips meaning on its head, the unspoken…
Aphasia offers a profound look into how language is mapped in our brain. This journey explores the difference between Broca's aphasia, where a person struggles to produce words, and Wernicke's…