Conjunction junction, what's your function? Hooking up people using similar phrases, according to one Texas Tech University researcher. Molly Ireland, a visiting assistant professor in the Department ...

People who use the same kinds of function words are more likely to find a match, a researcher suggests. After analyzing speed dating results, researchers discovered a positive correlation of ...

Research by Tom De Ruyck and Stephan Ludwig finds that shared ‘function word’ usage among MROC members is correlated to the amount of community activity. In mining online text-based conversations for ...

Studies of speech perception and segmentation in the prelinguistic period, early word production, and patterns of function word omission in early syntax have all recently emphasized the role of the ...