Over 70 million deaf people use sign languages as their preferred communication form. Although they access similar brain structures as spoken languages, it hasn't been identified the brain regions ...

F. Deniz et al., “The representation of semantic information across human cerebral cortex during listening versus reading is invariant to stimulus modality,” J Neurosci, 39:7722–36, 2019. Researchers ...

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Corrections & clarifications: An earlier version of this story contained inaccurate or incomplete facts about the history of language. Language is an essential part of human communication, allowing ...

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EVANSTON, Ill. --- Although researchers have long agreed that girls have superior language abilities than boys, until now no one has clearly provided a biological basis that may account for their ...

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck me how ...

Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component. These unwritten languages pose a unique problem for modern machine ...