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The ‘missing link’ that helped our ancestors to begin communicating with each other through language may have been iconic sounds, rather than charades-like gestures – giving rise to the unique human power to coin new words describing the world around us, a new study reveals.
A new study provides a profile of teachers around the world who provide English Medium…
Forgery of official documents by monks was rife across medieval Europe because of social changes…
A new focus in English linguistics
An analysis of Twitter activity between March 1 and Aug. 1, 2020, found strong support by U.S. users for wearing face coverings and that a media focus on anti-mask opinions fueled the rhetoric of those opposed, report University of Oregon researchers.
Characters with harsh syllables in their names were judged to be stronger, heavier and larger
Gossip creates social connections and allows for learning about the world indirectly
Douglas Wilbur ’14, a visiting Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Communication at UTSA, has published a study that shows how researchers can craft message campaigns to protect individuals from adopting extremist views.
Multilingual people have trained their brains to learn languages, making it easier to acquire more new languages after mastering a second or third.
Concerns for fair treatment in courts and community
UTokyo-MIT study measures brain activity while learning basic sounds, grammar rules of unfamiliar language
University of Bath Press release
Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language.
As our planet warms, seas rise and catastrophic weather events become more frequent, action on…
Babies can recognize combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language
The first in-depth look at the human ability to decode the range of emotions tied to the acoustic cues of screams
Improvements in reading and listening skills of first-time Japanese language students observed via brain scan
A new study suggests that non-visual communication methods that better synchronize and boost audio cues are in fact more effective
Research shows that children prefer to befriend, listen to, and imitate people who speak similarly…
Throughout the world, societies discriminate against and mistreat members of certain social groups. Young children…
The question of the origin of the language is one of the most important and…
It can be hard to resist lapsing into an exaggerated, singsong tone when you talk…
A UOC study has conducted the first ever analysis of the discourse of patients with severe depression in blogs
Childhood obesity also more prevalent among U.S. households with low socioeconomic status
Unique, complex information in analog methods likely gives brain more details to trigger memory
Articulating lingual life histories and language ideological assemblages
New study explores the value of bilingual children’s books in second language learning
Northwestern researchers test whether birdsong supports infants’ object categorization
People who frequently mislead others are less able to distinguish fact from fiction, according to University of Waterloo researchers
New book details computational cognitive model for deep language comprehension
Elements of oral expression such as pitch, tone and intonation, highlight important parts of speech, and not only humans benefit. According to a study on the evolution of language published in the journal Cognition
New research reveals story of Penguin’s work to bring Russian classics to English readers in the 20th century
At an informative level, the highlighted aspect during the first few months of the pandemic…
Competition also awards new prize for dance about COVID-19
Travellers looking to book a hotel should trust their gut instinct when it comes to online reviews rather than relying on computer algorithms to weed out the fake ones, a new study suggests.
BINGHAMTON, NY — Neandertals — the closest ancestor to modern humans — possessed the ability…
Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist…
Babies whose births were depicted in Bollywood films from the 1950s and 60s were more often than not boys; in today’s films, boy and girl newborns are about evenly split. In the 50s and 60s, dowries were socially acceptable; today, not so much.
Small changes to people’s writing style can reveal which social group they “belong to” at…
In her latest book, Mary Foltz examines the ways several postmodern authors produce scatological works to critique how humans treat each other and the natural world
In the first few months of their lives, babies cry, babble, gurgle and make a…
Two-meter kangaroo painting thought to be 17,300 years old
University of Ottawa study finds using a negative emoji when texting — in any context — reflects negatively despite intent
The ability to speak is one of the essential characteristics that distinguishes humans from other…
PITTSBURGH–“The Queen’s Gambit,” the recent TV mini-series about a chess master, may have stirred increased…
PULLMAN, Wash. – People tend to listen to big talkers, whether they are women or…
Experts say English slang and regional dialect should not be banned from classrooms but when you’re getting to grips with a second language how helpful is it to learn non-standard lingo?
Such prediction can be successfully modelled by neural networks
When we listen to speech sounds, the information that enters our left and right ear…
A new study published in the journal Science Advances shows that Bantu-speaking communities in the…