The architecture and processes underlying visual word recognition represent some of the most intricate systems in human cognition. The seemingly simple act of reading a word involves not only a ...

WordTips first established a list of the 350 most misspelled words in the English language to serve as the foundation for this study. The website then sampled over 2 billion geotagged tweets from ...

Linguists have noticed that many swear words share the same sharp, punchy sounds—hard consonants like “k,” “t,” and “g” that burst out of the mouth rather than flow. When a study examined those sound ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

We’ve probably been doing this since humans began to speak, but such informal language has rarely left a written record. It’s only since the rise of social media that we have had an opportunity to ...

Back in the 1990s, a team of researchers spent two and a half years visiting the homes of close to four dozen families with young children, starting when the kids were 7 months old. Equipped with tape ...