You know those alien languages you hear in the movies and ever wondered who comes up with them? Well, this article talked about Sara Maria Forsberg, a high school graduate who today is 23 years old...
This study is the first known comprehensive study in language and communication abilities of adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and aimed to clarify the extent of PAE's effects. Among...
Very interesting article. It talks about different body languages and what they represent and how you should/shouldn't avoid them to be "successful." My favorites are #s 9 and 10 where they say you...
LSD alters consciousness, but the mechanism of how this happens has been elusive. Now researchers report that LSD interferes with the patterns of activation in brain networks that underlie human th...
ttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3047678/What-unusual-phrases-does-area-use-Interactive-grammar-map-reveals-bizarre-language-differences-US.html#ixzz3ZZodPrKg Researchers at Yale Un...
Research has shown that when a teacher explains a homework assignment to a student, the student who postpones their work tends to suffer physical or mental illness later on. APS Fellow Dianne Tice ...
This article reveals a new connection between stress and recurring heart attacks. As we get older, it is inevitable that our body will start to suffer from things like heart attacks. We know a lot ...
This article discusses the integration of coding classes in schools, and how some lawmakers want to take it a step further and allow coding to be a substitute for foreign language requirements. Cod...
Many seem to associate our vocal tracts and mouths as the organs that produce language. However, how is it that the deaf can use sign language and the blind read braille? The primary organ responsi...
A telltale stretch of DNA at a gene called ROBO2 is linked to the number of words that a child masters in the early stage of talking, they reported in the journal Nature Communications. ROBO2 cont...
Some possible signs, according to various researchers cited in the article: 1. amount of bragging 2. efforts to elevate themselves by comparing down to others 3. efforts to draw attention to onesel...
Our brain likes to work in stages and steps. In order to keep the process flowing and optimal, you need long periods of time in which you can just focus on a single task. By not allowing yourself...
This article talks about how the Irish language is being used and understood by fewer and fewer people. It also talks about what the government is doing to fix the problem.
This article explains the series of linguistic/comprehension difficulties faced by toddlers and young children with a learning disabilities. A learning disorder does not affect just one area of lea...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/wakanda-black-panther.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FLanguage%20and%20Languages&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&m...
This is an interesting article on lying and what liars tend to do. According to the article when people lie they tend to say certain things, do certain things, show different facial expressions, an...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/booksblog/2017/dec/07/internet-online-news-social-media-changes-language?scrlybrkr=fef4ba53 This is about how language hasn't really changed that much even w...
This study aimed to validate the effects of second language learning on children's linguistic awareness. More particularly, it examined whether bilingual background improves the ability to manipula...
This study was conducted to understand why leading up to the infamous 2016 election, though Clinton was on the road winning, the pronouns "he" and "they" were being used instead of "she". This stud...
(https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24923868/) This is about, unsurprisingly, the relationship between grammar when texting and results of scholastic grammar testing. The researchers find that there i...
