As a refresher, syntax describes sentence structure—how words are arranged grammatically and what parts of speech they use.

Researchers are increasingly finding that subtle shifts in everyday conversation can flag trouble in the brain long before ...

Neurons in the brain's motor cortex previously thought of as active mainly during hand and arm movements also light up during speech in a way that is similar to patterns of brain activity linked to ...

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 ...

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 ...