In future work, we will investigate how the brain might use the prosodic properties of speech to extract the grammatical structure of spoken sentences," says Coopmans.

In future work, we will investigate how the brain might use the prosodic properties of speech to extract the grammatical structure of spoken sentences," says Coopmans. More information ...

All major languages have a grammatical structure ... in a sentence that show action, or tell you what the subject of the sentence is doing. Find out more with BBC Bitesize. What is a simple ...