People often seem to understand language before they have actually heard enough words to determine its structure. In everyday ...

Researchers discover that the brain proactively builds sentence structures during speech using predictive processing, explaining why second-language listening is difficult.

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Can language exist without grammar? Grammar is the system for organising a language. All major languages have a grammatical structure. What is an adjective? Learn about the importance of adjectives ...

Almost six years ago a Russian member of Jose Carillo’s “English Forum" posed a very interesting question about a little discussed functional element of English sentence structure — the determiners, ...