A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the verb second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people acquire language. It's safe to assume that when ...

Language comprehension involves the prediction of upcoming linguistic units across multiple timescales. However, how this prediction process is hierarchically implemented in the human brain remains ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

We break down what roles different types of words and phrases play within a sentence. There are many theories of syntax and different ways to represent grammatical structures, but one of the simplest ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...