“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.

Syntactic researchers in the Department ask how syntactic patterns are shaped by and shape communicative practice, focusing on construction-based grammatical explanation, the origins of grammatical ...

Syntactic priming is a cornerstone phenomenon in our understanding of language acquisition, reflecting how exposure to specific sentence structures subtly shapes both immediate language use and ...

The European starling -- long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too -- may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, ...

In machine learning and pattern recognition, a feature is an individual measurable heuristic property of a phenomenon being observed. Choosing discriminating and independent features is key to any ...

I work in a developing syntactic model called Construction Grammar (CxG). In CxG, rules of syntactic combination (descriptions of local trees) are directly associated with interpretive and use ...

This paper discusses the two alternating syntactic patterns of Polish past and conditional sentences from a Slavic perspective. We argue that what are often referred to in Polish as past tense verbs, ...

It is often maintained that dialect syntax is merely the syntax of the spoken language, and therefore, as a consequence, is identical in all spoken varieties of German. A closer examination shows that ...