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A new study: Older people’s fluency is a better predictor of life expectancy than other measures of cognitive functioning. Research has established a link between longevity and cognitive performance. Numerous tests are used to measure this. he analysis is based on data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) with 516 participants who were at least 70 years old.
Older people who can easily list animals or different words beginning with the same

Speech researcher Angela D. Friederici has always been fascinated by what happens in the brain during the process of speech and comprehension. By taking an interdisciplinary approach as a linguist, psychologist and neurobiologist, she has succeeded in overcoming the notorious gap between psychology and natural sciences and has gained a broad understanding of this medium in which we speak, read, think, write, email and tweet. Her findings have made her one of the world’s foremost researchers in the field of the neurobiology of speech. In our interview she talks about brain sections, the greatest linguist of all time and her own personal triumph.
We concluded that if grammar is lost but the words are otherwise still there, the

Lexibank: Linguists and computer scientists collaborate to publish a large global Open Access lexical database
The project is designed to facilitate new insights into the evolution of words and

Pianists play their instruments as fast as experienced typists on a QWERTY keyboard
piano playing to text entry by developing a computational approach that assigns words

The app enables scientists to collect large volumes of data on language processing in the brain
decision tasks like this to find out what happens in the brain when people read words

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language
They do this by combining sounds into words and words into sentences, creating infinite

The language we speak affects the way we process, store and retrieve information
memory tasks, the research team could compare their performance when recalling words

Linguistic analysis provides insight into the vocabularies for body parts in more than a thousand languages
Illustration of the study’s language sample and the words for arm/hand and leg/foot

Researchers find Amazonian Bora people to mimic the rhythm of their language for communication over large distances using drums
What they found was that the Boras not only reproduce the melody of words and sentences

New world atlas of colonial-era languages reveals massive traces of African and Pacific source languages
While most of these languages have words derived from the languages of the European