Our languages vary, but we may not be that different after all. From the word "huh" to how we come up with the names of ...
Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...
Scientists have thought that when we hear language, the brain processes it the same way, whether it's familiar or foreign. A ...
There are two ways to appear smart—look it or sound it. Looking smart is OK, but if it ends when you open your mouth, how ...
What’s in a swear? The world’s filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there’s something else swears across the world’s languages have in common. They’re all missing ...
These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern prevails in other languages too, researchers say. By Elizabeth Preston “Holy motherforking ...
Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...
Eylem Altuntas is a researcher at the BabyLab within the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour, and Development at Western Sydney University. Babies are like little detectives, constantly piecing ...
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