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A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once. By K. R. Callaway Speak a language your whole life and its grammatical ...

Where children live and what their household’s socioeconomic status is leaves a mark on their brains, a new study in Science finds. The results suggest that the fewer opportunities a child’s zip code ...

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