How meanings align across languages suggests that translation and cross-cultural communication may be challenging, but researchers haven't been clear as to what characterizes this alignment, and what ...

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...

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 ...