A new study finds that people hear familiar words as louder than nonsense words, even when both are equally loud. The results ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

A tiny brain blip during silent speech revealed the shocking truth: Your brain plans words by imagining sounds, not movements ...

This mismatch between what I knew in print and how I said it out loud wasn’t embarrassing to me. It just showed that I was learning, absorbing information and using ...

When reading a passage, readers may pause at a particular word or return to reread it. Studies using eye-tracking, which ...

Speaking usually feels automatic, but age can quietly change it. Simple words may begin to trip us up, and sentences that ...

Ready to solve the September 30 edition of NYT Connections? If you’re feeling stuck, we’ve got some clues and hints to help ...

Published in New York in 1879, Guess Me was “a curious collection of enigmas” compiled by the author Frederick D’Arros Planché (and using illustrations by Charles Dickens’s long-time collaborator, ...

Both charter and district schools are seeing enrollment growth simultaneously, challenging the notion that one sector must ...

UTA computer scientist Kenny Zhu shares encouraging early results of research into canine vocalizations. (UTA Photo)One year ...

As a bioacoustics researcher, I have spent years studying the communication of animals – from the soft calls of crocodile nestlings synchronizing their hatching and pushing the parent to dig the nest, ...

Poetry can express thoughts and emotions in freeing and insightful ways that prose simply cannot. For those who have never ...