Nearly 7,000 different languages are spoken across the world. But how these languages evolved has long been a source of debate. Now, a group of German researchers has uncovered exactly how language ...

In just a few years, children achieve a stable state of linguistic competence, making them effectively adults with respect to: understanding novel sentences, discerning relations of paraphrase and ...

Following the recent British referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union (EU), the government has been attempting to figure out what British exit from the EU, or Brexit, actually means.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper provides an analysis of articles in two unrelated languages: St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) and English child language. The article ...