Dialects differ from one another on a number of linguistic levels: from the words people use to how they’re pronounced, and what grammatical patterns are followed.

Grammar is no longer a set of rules to be instilled in students. Rather, they are expected to come to grips with grammatical patterns themselves in communicative context.

Humans learn complex grammatical patterns even in extremely challenging circumstances Creole languages shed light on the robustness of language transmission Peer-Reviewed Publication Max Planck ...

Baffling grammar Another reason is that English has a peculiarity: the phenomenon of phrasal verbs—a verb whose meaning is changed by a small word added to it. Take ‘run’ for example.

Grammatical structures as a window into the past A new large-scale database and atlas of key structural properties of mixed languages from the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific has been published ...

A new study presented 27 Philadelphia court stenographers with recordings of Black English grammatical patterns; the stenographers, the study found, made transcription errors on average in two out ...

To better understand how grammatical structures emerge in hybridized languages, researchers analyzed the patterns of creole and non-creole languages from all over the globe. Photo by Russell Gray/MPG ...