A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...

Sept. 5 (UPI) --New research suggests creoles inherit their basic grammatical structures from the languages spoken at the time and place of their emergence. Creole languages are hybridized languages.

A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...

A new study uses MEG imaging to prove that bilingual brains rely on a single, shared grammar engine across all spoken languages.

Brain imaging revealed that bilingual speakers use a shared neural system for grammar across languages, suggesting the brain ...

It's not uncommon for bilingual speakers to mistakenly apply the grammatical rules of one language while speaking the ...

Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...

Do humans learn grammar based on what they hear? Or is it already in our brain somewhere? Shutterstock How do we humans end up using language in a way that conforms to grammatical rules? Recent ...

Learning a new language can create opportunities for travel, business and cultural exchange, but some languages require ...

The European starling -- long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too -- may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, ...

A large-scale study of languages shows that the grammar of creoles - which emerged in multilingual situations of extreme social upheaval, like colonial slaveries - are composed from the grammars of ...