So many kids (and adults!) struggle with pragmatic language skills due to having autism or another learning disability. Not ...

You recall back in 2004 when George W. Bush referred to "rumors on the Internets." That instantly became a classic Bushism, but to my mind he got it right — not just because what we call the Internet ...

When we speak our native language we unconsciously follow certain rules. These rules are different in different languages. For example, if I want to talk about a particular collection of oranges, in ...

Why do we seem to know how to make conversation work? Even when we aren’t brilliant conversationalists regarding what we talk about, we still seem to follow some underlying rules for how conversations ...

For more than 600 years, English speakers used because as a conjunction meaning “for the reason that,” dutifully following it with a full clause of explanation (or at least the word of). Then, a few ...