A new study from UC San Francisco challenges the traditional view of how the brain strings sounds together to form words and ...

Like a lot of words, “so” qualifies as several different parts of speech, including adverb, conjunction and adjective. Some of its common uses are controversial among sticklers.

Often, just knowing the general meaning of a word is not enough to help students use the word correctly in a given situation. The features of the word that are embedded in the word ending can give ...

A Word, Please: Should you use a hyphen? It often depends on the part of speech An early morning water skier cuts a slice out of Mission Bay early on Feb. 17, 2020.

A new study has found that a key part of the brain involved in forming speech is firing away in babies as they listen to voices around them. This may represent a sort of mental rehearsal leading ...

When learning a second language (L2), many are likely familiar with the challenge of memorizing vocabulary, only to struggle ...

Stuttering is a disruption of the flow of speech, a form of dysfluency. This may appear in a variety of ways. It could be with repeating sounds, syllables or words (W-W-What). Or ...

Speech disorders affect the way a person makes sounds. Get the facts on various types, such as ataxia and dysarthria.

Teachers were given a presentation that reportedly suggested the word "family" had been "identified as harmful by our racialized students." ...