Activities like learning a new language as a child or reading, writing, and playing board games later in life all had an impact on Alzheimer’s risk.

Alzheimer's symptoms appear when parts of the brain start to shrink, affecting both its physical structure and functionality ...

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences," said ...

Amonjon Bobononov wins the second prize at a Chinese language competition for overseas students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. CHINA DAILY I come from Tajikistan, a mountainous land in Central Asia ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Using more than one language shapes brain structure, a phenomenon widely observed in bilingual groups (Abutalebi et al., 2015a; DeLuca et al., 2019, 2020; Grundy et ...

Japan—a key United States ally—has accused China of constructing a maritime structure in the East China Sea, where the two countries have yet to delimit their exclusive economic zones. As part of ...

Pranam Chatterjee, PhD, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), emphasizes that text is all you need for artificial intelligence (AI) models to effectively ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into sentences, creating infinite meanings. This process is based on linguistic rules ...