Recently in the headlines

• SD: Think twice, speak once: bilinguals process both languages simultaneously
• SD: Ability to move to a beat linked to brain's response to speech: musical training may sharpen language processing
• BBC: Moving to the rhythm 'can help language skills'
• SD: Why humans are musical
• SD: Responsive interactions key to toddlers' ability to learn language
• NYU: The signing brain: what sign languages reveal about human language and the brain (video of Karen Emmorey lecture)
• SD: Aphasia and bilingualism: using one language to relearn another
• SD: Colonizing songbirds lost sense of syntax
• SD: Understanding how infants acquire new words across cultures

Recently in the headlines

• Quanta: Evolution as opportunist
• SD: New evidence that orangutans and gorillas can match images based on biological categories
• SD: Learning a new language alters brain development
• SD: Primate calls, like human speech, can help infants form categories
• SD: Language and tool-making skills evolved at the same time
• SD: Discovery helps to unlock brain's speech-learning mechanism
• SD: Look at what I'm saying: engineers show brain depends on vision to hear
• SD: Neuroscientists show that monkeys can decide to call out or keep silent
• NS: Why your brain may work like a dictionary
• SD: Brain scans may help diagnose dyslexia
• SD: Piano fingers: how players strike keys depends on how muscles are used for keystrokes that occur before and after (comparison to coarticulation in speech)

Today's installment is less narrowly linguistic and more broadly bio than in the past. Feedback on whether this is a positive or negative development is welcome.