A new study suggests that the phonemic composition of words influences as how beautiful we perceive them to be, and how well ...

Ideophones, or words that sound like what they mean—words whose sound evokes the sensory experience they describe, like swish or twinkle—are easier to learn than other words, a new study finds. The ...

Our tendency to match specific sounds with specific shapes, even abstract shapes, is so fundamental that it guides perception before we are consciously aware of it, according to new research in ...

Welcome, wordsmiths and language lovers! 📚Do you think you know advanced English vocabulary? This quiz features 32 ...

The English language is full of oddities, but some words sound so absurd you’d swear someone made them up after one too many pints. However, they’re real, many with histories stretching back centuries ...