Our memories and imagination may make nouns the most mentally demanding part of speech
Some things are hard to say, but according to an easily quantifiable metric, “I’m sorry” and “I love you” are easy.
Some things are hard to say, but according to an easily quantifiable metric, “I’m sorry” and “I love you” are easy.
Once a child learns to speak, it’s only a matter of time before they start parroting their parents’ favorite phrases.
From a scientific perspective, the problem with languages is the cultures that help create them.
It’s a safe bet that you’re reading this text silently, because that’s how text works, right?
Baby brains are language sponges.
When my daughter was around one-and-a-half, she started going to a daycare that was run by a native Russian speaker.
If vocabulary reflects a culture’s interests, then we really don’t care about smells.