The rules of grammar you follow while speaking may not reflect what you're thinking. In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that speakers ...

What languages sounded like before a few thousand years ago is one of the great unsolvable mysteries of modern science. Now two linguists have come up with a bold hypothesis: the speakers of the ...

We all order in the same way, no matter what language we speak. That neat trick occurs in the course of daily affairs, not in an Esperanto-only restaurant. People nonverbally represent all kinds of ...

Researchers believe that information theory -- the discipline that gave us digital communication -- can explain differences between human languages. The majority of languages -- roughly 85 percent of ...

IF KIM JONG IL plays charades, his hand gestures might look just like George Bush’s. For irrespective of their native tongue’s sentence structure, people communicate non-verbally in the same way. Some ...