A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

When my daughter was approaching her first birthday, she said what we would proudly describe to everyone, probably for decades to come, as her "first word." It was "mammam," which is not even a real ...

A new study analyzing spontaneous speech in 48 languages reveals that human beings across the globe structure their speech into rhythmic units at a remarkably consistent rate of one every 1.6 seconds.