Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and ...

Scientists created fake words to test if sound affects memory. Result: people remembered pleasant-sounding words twice as ...

A swear word is like a linguistic punch in the nose. Virtually every language and culture has them—and virtually every language and culture formally disapproves of them. But that doesn’t stop them ...

These four sounds are missing from some of the seven words you can never say on television, and the pattern prevails in other languages too, researchers say. By Elizabeth Preston “Holy motherforking ...