psycholinguistics

Zombie Nouns: The Plague of Nominalization

Nominalization occurs when strong verbs are transformed into static, heavy nouns (like changing "utilize" to "utilization"), creating what linguists call…

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Dyslexia in Logograms: Reading Differences in Chinese

While Western dyslexia is primarily a phonological challenge involving sound-letter mapping, research shows that dyslexia in Chinese functions differently, impacting…

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The Hierarchy of Color: Why ‘Red’ Always Beats ‘Blue’

Why do almost all languages develop a word for "Red" before they create a word for "Blue"? This post explores…

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Stuttering John’s Lost Language

In the 10th century, an envoy named John of Gorze adopted a radical language-learning strategy: two years of total silence…

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The Loneliest Song: The 52-Hertz Whale

For decades, a mysterious call has echoed through the Pacific—a single voice at a frequency no other whale uses. This…

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“Hello World”: The Birth of a Coded Ritual

The phrase "Hello, World!" is more than just the first program most coders write; it's a universal rite of passage…

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The Forbidden Experiment: Feral Children

From an Egyptian pharaoh to a Holy Roman Emperor, history is dotted with cruel attempts to discover humanity's "natural" language…

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The Fairy Tale Behind ‘Serendipity’

The delightful word 'serendipity' wasn't a happy accident itself, but a deliberate creation by 18th-century writer Horace Walpole. Inspired by…

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The Keyboard That Looked Like a Piano

Before QWERTY conquered the world, the first typewriter prototype had keys arranged in two simple rows like a piano. This…

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The First Family of Esperanto

L. L. Zamenhof may have invented Esperanto, but he didn't bring it to life alone. This is the story of…

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