Infants of 18 and 24 months acquiring English were tested in a preferential looking task on their ability to detect ungrammaticalities caused by manipulating a single function word in sentences.

When Kate was growing up, saying "bum" was completely taboo. Lee says her 87-year-old mum is horrified by the f-word, but will use "bloody" in almost every sentence. And Anna, a grandma, drops the ...

This paper uses statistical analysis of function words used in legal judgments written by United States Supreme Court justices, to determine which justices have the most variable writing style (which ...