Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...

During the first year of life, when babies spend so much time listening to language, they're actually tracking word patterns that will support their process of word- learning that occurs between the ...

In each sentence below, words or phrases that represent major sentence elements appear randomly in different colors. These sentence elements include SUBJECTS (S), VERBS (V), and OBJECTS (O). For each ...

Small and 'invisible' words like 'a', 'the' and 'it' appear in a similar pattern across most narratives ranging from Dickens to Spielberg - forming a blueprint for storytelling, a study has found.