Basically a study saying they tracked intonation units across languages that occurs every 1.6 seconds that help track meaning, taking turns, etc. My thought on reading this is that it seems to operate ...

A well-known British linguist came to New York to give a lecture on the double negative, an expression in which two negatives add up to a positive, such as, “He’s not unlike his sister.” In his ...

Study finds that dogs process speech in a similar way to humans, and that what you say and how you say it both matter when conversing with canines It is both what you say and the way that you say it ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to make mistakes in the new language: incorrect intonation can change the ...

Tonal languages are different from non-tonal languages because tonal languages are dependent on the emphasis and pronunciation, because how a word is said will affect its meaning. It is quite ...

A study has been published showing that dogs, who have been humanity's closest animal friends for ages, can understand human speech. Recently, researchers at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, ...

A new fMRI brain imaging study of dogs shows that their brains process spoken words in hierarchical ways that are surprisingly similar to how the human brain uses a two-tiered hierarchy to process ...