If we can recognize the accent we hear, our brains are able to process foreign accented speech with better real time accuracy, a new study reports.
According to a new study, learning a second language improves connections in brain networks for both young and older people.
Linguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech. A new study suggests human language is a grafting of two communication forms found elsewhere in the animal kingdom: first, the elaborate songs of birds, and second, the more utilitarian, information-bearing types of expression seen in a diversity of other animals.