South Korea has a notoriously grueling college entrance exam. This year’s English portion was so difficult that it led to a ...

Our alumni have used their English majors to pursue further study and earn advanced degrees from such impressive institutions as Cambridge, Denver Publishing Institute, Emory, Harvard Law, Johns ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have extracted the building blocks of precise hand ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...

Form I‑140G, the Immigrant Petition for the Gold Card Program, can be submitted through the new Trumpcard.gov website, which ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

K R Meera, one of the most powerful literary voices of our times, continues to probe the politics of gender and power through ...

Traveling to another country when you don't know the language can be tricky. Here are some important phrases to look up ...

Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...

In Pakistan, debates about education tend to orbit around crumbling school buildings, lack of funds, outdated curricula, and ...

Working in the APEX Lab , led by cognitive psychologist Howard C. Nusbaum, Chinnappa is trying to decode what words and ...