In the hierarchy of foreign and domestic accents, where does your accent fit in? A discussion of which accents came out on top in a ranking of favorites, and how different accents are perceived.

Micha Heilbron, Kristijan Armeni, Jan-Mathijs Schoffelen, Peter Hagoort, Floris P. de Lange, A hierarchy of linguistic predictions during natural language comprehension, Proceedings of the National ...

In contrast, if the dislike of lbif reflects its linguistic structure, then the syllable hierarchy is expected to engage traditional language areas in the brain.

A team of linguistics and psychology researchers has discovered that when a brief sentence is flashed, our brains detect its basic linguistic structure extremely quickly -- in roughly 150 ...

In a multilingual postcolonial society like India’s, linguistic hierarchy exists in a layered manner. It does not simply have a two-level hierarchy of Hindi and English versus the rest of the ...

Semantic hierarchy In making this choice, the volunteers – who hadn’t been exposed to any three-word phrases – would reveal their innate bias in language-learning.

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.

Practising linguists and linguistics students are being offered a flavour of the Maltese language structure, and the context within which Maltese thrives, during the second edition of the ...