Understanding sentence structure and grammar rules is the secret to writing and speaking with clarity. From subjects and ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

Strong English sentence skills are the secret to expressing yourself clearly, whether you’re writing an email, chatting with friends, or speaking in public. By understanding sentence structure, ...

About 6,000 languages are spoken today worldwide. How this wealth of expression developed, however, largely remains a mystery. A group of researchers in the Netherlands has now found that word-orders ...