I came across a rather sad post on a message board the other day. “I feel insecure because someone made fun of my less than perfect grammar. What’s the best way to improve it?” This post led me to ...

Dr Dye and her team found a clear, yet previously undetected, pattern of sounds which consistently replaced grammatical words in many of the children’s utterances. She said: ‘Many of the toddlers we ...

When hearing speech in an unfamiliar language, the listener has no explicit information signalling the underlying structural rules that speakers use to produce sentences. Similarly, acquiring the ...