When learning to speak a foreign language, students typically are given a lesson in how to introduce themselves. This lesson often takes the form of a simple conversational dialogue such as, “Hello...
Jacob Levy offers a deeply thoughtful meditation on Trump’s use of language — on the power it has exerted over Republican voters and the GOP Congress, and on the folly of imagining that his words...
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that musical training helps people hear speech syllables in loud environments, and has shown how this happens....