The study is based on words only in English. But it’s a step along the way to working out how the brain stores words in its language library, says neurosurgeon Ziv Williams at the Massachusetts ...
Whether it’s a child extending their nonsense word for “duck” to encompass other birds, or broader adult linguistic communities dubbing a new piece of computer technology a “mouse” for its resemblance ...
Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...