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 ...

Broadcast news reports have long been familiar to radio listeners and TV viewers, and today they are also read on the internet, but few linguistic studies on the discourse structure of news reports ...

Fukushima (Japan) (AFP) – Three Japanese ex-soldiers were found guilty Tuesday but given only suspended jail sentences for sexually assaulting a female colleague who won praise but also online hate ...

You’re walking down a quiet street in Japan, surrounded by glowing signs and unfamiliar symbols, when one sentence in English suddenly stops you in your tracks. It almost makes sense, yet somehow says ...

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...