Neuroscience
New study in children with language deficits highlights importance of voluntary imagination in language evolution
Did the boy bite the cat, or was it the other way around?
Jul 14, 2022
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News tagged with language evolution
Psychology & Psychiatry
Universal prosodic cues facilitate learning in both animals and humans
Prosody is a branch of linguistics that analyses and formally represents the elements of oral expression such as pitch, tones and intonation. A study published in Cognition on 5 February shows that there are universal prosodic ...
Mar 9, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Memory limits give rise to open-ended language abilities
A hallmark of human language is our ability to produce and understand an infinite number of different sentences. This unique open-ended productivity is normally explained in terms of "structural reuse"; sentences are constructed ...
Jan 26, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How human brains do language: One system, two channels
Contrary to popular belief, language is not limited to speech. In a recent study published in the journal PNAS, Northeastern University Prof. Iris Berent reveals that people also apply the rules of their spoken language to ...
Nov 7, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Bias key in language evolution
As one local scientist so eloquently phrases it, the evolution of language is like a man with a Ford car, whose previous two cars were Fords but after experiencing his friend's Toyota has switched brands to what he considers ...
Jul 11, 2014
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