Researchers have asked why infants learn new nouns more rapidly than new verbs, with many researchers asserting that the early noun-advantage is a universal feature of human language. Researchers ...

A “participle” is simply a word formed from a verb. Gerunds also end in “-ing,” but they are verbs pretending to be nouns. “Efforting” and “calendaring” are acting as verbs.) The Oxford English ...

Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learnt.