Instead of direct references, “Star Trek’s” Tamarians speak in metaphorical references grounded in stories that have learned associations.

A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th Century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student.

Children learn demonstratives that call others’ attention to objects – such as ‘this/that’ and ‘here/there’ – at extremely young ages.

A team of AI researchers has developed an AI application to help historians fill in the gaps of text missing from stone and metal artifacts

Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain imaging study finds

Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation.

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.

You can now take free online classes in 12 rare Jewish languages like Judeo-Greek and Karaim. They aim to keep Jewish heritages alive.

No language has words for all the blues of a wind-churned sea or the greens and golds of a wildflower meadow in late summer.

Are a child’s long-term language skills shaped by how their brain develops during infancy, and how much is influenced by their environment

The findings suggest that auditory and speech processing occur in parallel , contradicting a long-held theory that the brain processed...

Research has shown that a music-related hobby boosts language skills and affects the processing of speech in the brain.