The psychologist, Lawrence Barsalou, has suggested that the function of language is to provide an executive control function, operating over body-based concepts in the conceptual system. And this view ...

An evolutionary tree connecting the major language families charts their divergence from one mother tongue into hundreds of different languages LANGUAGES evolve in fits and starts rather than ...

New research from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has significant implications for understanding both human language development and the behaviour of large-scale artificial ...

Motivational dynamics in second language acquisition examines how learners’ drive to learn a new language evolves over time through the interplay of personal aspirations, social contexts and learning ...

In my previous post, Universal Scenes of Experience and the Emergence of Grammar, I discussed the trajectory of the emergence of grammar. In this post, I continue this theme by asking: Why did ...