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.

Although Pakistan has at least 250 major languages and Urdu is the national language, English is perceived as a superior language or ‘the passport to privilege.’ Be­ing the language of the coloni ...

Language enables people to transmit thoughts to each other because each person’s brain responds similarly to the meaning of words. In our newly published research, my colleagues and I developed ...

Power relations and hierarchies as well as spaces for freedom and change are created through language and shared through writing practices. Writing centers are often seen as mechanisms for norming or ...

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 a related fashion, the Cognitive Commitment represents the view that principles of linguistic structure should reflect what is known about human cognition from other disciplines, particularly ...

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 ...