On March 11, 2024, Beth Riehle was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, the most common form of tongue cancer In December 2023, Beth Riehle began experiencing a severe migraine that never went away ...

“Why can’t you speak your language?” A question that sounds so simple but the answer is usually quite loaded. You’ll be familiar with this question if you’re part of a diaspora. My mum speaks five ...

A study of polyglots found the brain's language network responds more strongly when hearing languages a speaker is more proficient in -- and much more weakly to the speaker's native language. A new ...

Some conversations are forgotten as soon as they are over, while other exchanges may leave lasting imprints. Researchers want to understand why and how listeners remember some spoken utterances more ...

ROCHESTER — When Manasa Yerriboyina started school, she spoke very little English. For years, she was hesitant to express herself at all for fear of being bullied for her Indian accent that she had up ...

Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds ...

THE 7400 or so languages in use today speak to the fact that our species is primed to communicate. But while it is tempting to view language as merely a consequence of our extraordinary cognitive ...

Beth Riehle was at the height of her career. At 35, living in Austin, she was working at an interior design boutique hotel, bartending and designing cocktails for their multimillion-dollar beverage ...