I am often asked why English is such a difficult to learn for non-native speakers. In fact, how hard it is to learn depends on what your native language is; and this follows as languages are more (or ...

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin. There was a time when my oversized hardback Collins Roberts French dictionary ...

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...