When you open your eyes, you see a colorful three-dimensional world of objects and events. Add to the mixture a panoply of sounds, smells, tastes, and bodily sensations, and you’ve got the ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

English is no longer just a means of communication. It’s become a kind of passport, one that opens doors, commands attention, ...

Words are tools. Some build bridges, while others burn them. A single word can change the tone of a conversation, redirect a decision, or reshape how someone is viewed. In relationships, politics, ...

Bilingualism and language perception research has radically reshaped our understanding of cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying linguistic processing. Contemporary studies demonstrate that ...

Understanding the interplay between speech rate and perception is fundamental to unraveling how listeners decode continuous spoken language. Variations in speech tempo not only influence the ...

A single phrase can follow you for a lifetime. For me, it was this: Perception is reality. It was one of the first lessons drilled into me during Plebe Summer at the U.S. Naval Academy. It felt like a ...