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Building sentence structure may be language-specific

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...
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Sentences have their own timing in the brain

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study, researchers report that ...

Building sentence structure may be language-specific, brain activity study finds

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...
Sydney Morning Herald

English teachers told to focus on grammar, punctuation as writing declines

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...
Los Angeles Times

A Word, Please: There are needless words that harm sentence structure. You’ve just read three of them.

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame. Why would I ...