The rules of grammar you follow while speaking may not reflect what you're thinking. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that speakers ...

The mind appears to have a consistent way of organizing an event that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically appear in languages, according to research at the University of ...

We all order in the same way, no matter what language we speak. That neat trick occurs in the course of daily affairs, not in an Esperanto-only restaurant. People nonverbally represent all kinds of ...

If Kim Jong Il plays charades, his hand gestures might look just like George Bush’s, a new study suggests. It seems that, regardless of the sentence structure of their native tongue, non-verbal ...

Researchers believe that information theory -- the discipline that gave us digital communication -- can explain differences between human languages. The majority of languages -- roughly 85 percent of ...

Learning Spanish starts with mastering grammar basics like gendered nouns, verb conjugations, and sentence structure. These rules form the backbone of your communication skills, helping you express ...