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 ...

I was recently browsing (I’ll tell you why some other time) in my long-neglected copy of The Basis and Essentials of German by Charles Duff and Richard Freund (Thomas Nelson, London, third edition ...

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 ...

By flashing the study's participants entire sentences all at once, as opposed to word by word, the researchers could uncover the brain's ability to quickly identify basic phrase structure, even if the ...

NEW YORK — With constant notification pings, our brains are always being bombarded with fleeting text. These brief encounters with written language barely register in our conscious awareness, yet ...

An overhaul to the way high school students are taught grammar, punctuation and sentence structure will be introduced after a decade-long decline in writing standards has left teenagers without vital ...