Psycholinguistics is a field at the intersection of psychology and linguistics, and one of its recent discoveries is that the languages we speak influence our eye movements. For example, English ...

Language helps define the way people think about themselves and their culture. It does so by shaping the way we think, feel ...

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Our language is changing constantly. Researchers of the University of Vienna found that, over centuries, frequently occurring speech sound patterns get even more frequent. The reason for this ...

Third language acquisition (L3A) has emerged as a distinct field within language research, exploring the cognitive and linguistic processes involved in learning an additional language after the first ...

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It's well established that babies in the womb hear and learn about speech, at least in the third trimester. For example, newborns have been shown to already prefer the voice of their mother, recognize ...