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 ...

Researchers find that comprehension is related to predicting sentence structure in real time. Notably, different languages guide prediction in different ways. People often seem to understand language ...

Online writing has changed completely during recent years. Blog posts, emails, reports, assignments, and website pages now ...

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...

From this rather limited vocabulary of six words and a sentence structure English has (noun verb noun), we can generate 27 different sentences (Mary hugs Jane, Mary hits John, Jane beats Mary being ...