Constructed languages, frequently invented to support world-building in fantasy and science
fiction genres, are often intended to sound similar to the characteristics of the people who …

All natural languages are structured hierarchically. In humans, this structural restriction is
neurologically coded: when two grammars are presented with identical vocabularies, brain …

How do polyglots—individuals who speak five or more languages—process their
languages, and what can this population tell us about the language system? Using fMRI, we …