Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...

Strong English sentence skills are the secret to expressing yourself clearly, whether you’re writing an email, chatting with friends, or speaking in public. By understanding sentence structure, ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

A new study led by Dr. Andrea Nini at The University of Manchester has found that a grammar-based approach to language ...

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