Discover how studying the breakdown of language following a stroke has finally revealed the hidden machinery of one of ...

While it may take some time and fine-tuning to get used to the new grammar checker, Microsoft is on the path to making the feature useful for any style of writing. In one of my more recent posts, I ...

During the grammatical encoding of spoken multiword utterances, various kinds of information must be used to determine the order of words. For example, whereas in adjective-noun utterances like "red ...

It’s a peculiar observation that the more people speak a language, the simpler its grammar tends to be. English and Mandarin, for instance, have notably straightforward structures. On the other hand, ...

It seems like just yesterday I was writing a column debunking the myth that it’s wrong to start a sentence with a conjunction. And it seems like just the day before yesterday that I wrote the same ...

Hildegard von Bingen was something of a medieval genius. She founded and was Abbess of a convent at Rubensberg in Germany, she wrote ethereally beautiful music, she was an amazing artist (one of the ...