Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Eager to watch a foundational skills lesson, we enter a kindergarten classroom in a large urban school district in mid-November. The children are sitting cross-legged on the rug at the front of the ...

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People who act like they know everything rarely come right out and say it, but you can usually hear it in the phrases they use on an almost daily basis. Their conversations tend to feel one-sided, ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Doctors don’t just examine bodies—they also decode language. And some words and phrases make them lean in, ...