Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

Boris Vazquez-Calvo is principal investigator of two funded research projects: (1) SEGUE: Social Media and Video Games in language learning and teaching of student teachers (ref.: B1-2021_33, ...

Dependency linguistics examines the relationships between words in a sentence, focussing on how syntactic structure is determined by directed links—dependencies—between a head and its dependents. This ...

Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...

Metaphor is not merely a literary device but a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes how individuals conceptualise and communicate their experiences. In cognitive linguistics, research into ...

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language ...

Arthur Glenberg receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Cameron Robert Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

I said previously that human self-conscious awareness arose as a consequence of two other unique human attributes, our capacity for language and our ability to continually transform the world by ...