Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal ...

In some languages, the meaning of each word is not only conveyed by the order of its syllables, but also by the pitch. Tonal languages such as Cantonese, Mandarin or Yoruba are difficult to learn for ...

Speakers of human languages regularly imitate each others speech in very subtle, unconscious ways. Research has shown that the goal of this imitation is often to accommodate other speakers - if you ...