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 ...

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 ...

Because of what might be described as a definitional “artifact” in our case law, there is a serious inequity that has deprived many offenders of the opportunity to seek review or reconsideration of ...

The hierarchical structure of sentences appears to be less important in human sentence processing than previously assumed, according to a new study of readers' eye movements. Readers seem to pay ...

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 published in PLOS ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Critics have generally considered Henry James's style to be a major element of his prose fiction. Previous discussions of his style have ...