At a recent brown bag luncheon, Penn State President Eric Barron learned about the Center for Language Science, an outfit that examines everything from language acquisition to bilingualism to cognition to neurobiology. Click on the links below to access the Penn State News release as well as President Barron's blog:
http://news.psu.edu/story/437579/2016/11/14/administration/presidents-blog-power-language
http://diggingdeeper.psu.edu/2016/11/the-power-of-language/