Monique Todorovski, a clinical administrator, shares her experience of lexical-gustatory synaesthesia ...

Instead of pedestrian sentences, regale them with prose that sings, with language limned with the audacity to eschew ...

Rikke Louise Bundgaard-Nielsen does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

Western University's Frank Boers explains why idioms can cause even fluent english speakers trouble with communicating and understanding.

COMMENT: If your partnership needs refreshing, you might find that ditching labels, structures and hierarchies is one way of ...

Rajorshi Patranabis’ latest collection of poems Gossips Of Our Surrogate Story, published by Hawakal in 2025 is a fulsome tribute to his Wiccan proclivity and its “pagan pulses” (32) through an ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Being a linguist - and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue (Flemish Dutch) - I have an annoying habit: ...

The Voynich manuscript has long been shorthand for the unsolved and the unknowable, a late medieval codex filled with looping ...

Abstract: When a reader encounters a word in English, they split the word into smaller orthographic units in the process of recognizing its meaning. For example, “rough”, when split according to ...

This valuable study links psychological theories of chunking with a physiological implementation based on short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic augmentation. The theoretical derivation for ...

Researchers assessed volunteers’ brain activity while they listened to stories, showing that strokes disrupt how the brain ...

In 2025, an Australian couple asked to have their remaining embryos moved to another clinic, only to discover that the child ...