Perceptual systems often force systematically biased interpretations upon sensory input. These interpretations are obligatory, inaccessible to conscious control, and prevent observers from perceiving ...

As a refresher, syntax describes sentence structure—how words are arranged grammatically and what parts of speech they use. Semantics describes the actual meaning those words convey, which can vary ...

Syntactic priming is a cornerstone phenomenon in our understanding of language acquisition, reflecting how exposure to specific sentence structures subtly shapes both immediate language use and ...

The European starling – long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too – may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, can ...

I work in a developing syntactic model called Construction Grammar (CxG). In CxG, rules of syntactic combination (descriptions of local trees) are directly associated with interpretive and use ...

“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.

The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python. The new pattern matching statements would give Python ...

It is often maintained that dialect syntax is merely the syntax of the spoken language, and therefore, as a consequence, is identical in all spoken varieties of German. A closer examination shows that ...

“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.