Tag: language

This rare display of acquired vocalization could help scientists unravel the origin of speech and language in humans.

Scientists used the same language assessment tools designed for human children.

English speakers may find Mandarin, Arabic, and Japanese up to four times harder to become proficient in than Spanish or ...

In the 19th century, a man living in present-day Liberia dreamed of the first script for his native Vai language. ...

Counting is hard when your language doesn't have words for numbers.

As long as we understand what they mean, they're all the same language to our brains.

Nature, as well as nurture, play a part in our ability to learn language.

It should help us preserve these priceless texts for the future.

Nobody is free of biases, not even ourselves.

Two hemispheres are better than one!

The seeds for the development of speech and language may have been sown many millions years earlier than scientists previously ...

People love to communicate -- there are over 7,000 languages in use today.

The differences may be due to the power dynamics between the two genders.

"It's not the human system," say the authors.

Before there was the word, there was the meaning of sound.

Whether you break an egg or break into dance, our brain handles the word "break" the same.

That's about the same size as.... 3 high-resolution memes or one-tenth of a second of video in 1080p.

Softer food gave humans an overbite that made it easier to produce "v" and "f" sounds.

Oui oui, tres bien!

When one utters, the other listens -- and such is the case in most animals too.

Magpies? Check. Throwing orange balls at magpies? Check. Grated cheese? Check. I love this study.

We're far more likely to use slow-down sounds before nouns than verbs.

An adorable monkey's 'ekks' and 'tsiks' might teach how speech evolved.

Human speech may have been born out of cave art.

Languages with large vocabularies, such as Mandarin or English, are simpler grammatically, as opposed to complex languages which possess reduced ...

Booze to the rescue! Just don't overindulge.

The language we use really does influence what our brains are doing.

Exposure to a foreign language even at a meager age of six months can stick with you well into adulthood.

The pen is mightier than the clock too, it seems.

Turns out they argue. A lot.

In the hippocampus -- which is weird, because we didn't think it had anything to do with talking.

There are as many colours as you can name. In some cultures, like Africa's Himba tribe, they can only name ...

Humans have a surprising tendency to use the same sounds for the same objects -- across language barriers.

Analysists from Grammarly looked at all the general election debate transcripts since the 1960s word for word and found Presidential ...

Even though they can't remember a word in mandarin, children from China adopted in France bear the same brain activity ...

A paper published recently in Nature Communications details how a team lead by Dr. Ben Wilson and Professor Chris Petkov ...

Basques - an ethnic group from modern day Spain - were thought to be direct descendants of hunter-gatherers who had ...

A insightful incursion into the lives of sperm whales shows just how similar these gentle marine giants are to us. ...

One of the most peculiar languages in the world, whistled Turkish, is challenging the long-standing idea that the left brain ...

No matter how puritans might hate it, the English language, as any language for that matter, is constantly shifting, expanding ...

Joining sounds together to create a meaningful language was thought to be a human characteristic, but a new study published ...

“A world of languages” is a fascinating infographic created by Alberto Lucas Lopéz for the South China Morning Post. It ...

Languages like English, Greek or Hindu, all Indo-European tongues, stem from a common ancestral language family which originated 5,500 - ...

Researchers have theoretized for some time that our languages are skewed towards happy words - with some more skewed than ...

Researchers in Germany report the discovery a previously unknown bacterial communication pathway, one that might be a potential target for ...

Most kids believe that human and animal characteristics are innate - that is, looks, personality and language are intrinsic, inherited, ...

A far from definite, yet highly interesting explanation for the origin of language was recently proposed - not by linguists or ...

Orcas are smart, emotional, and very social. In many ways, they're like us.

A new sign language that's only recently emerged in an isolated community is unlike anything linguistics have been used to.

Globalization certainly has its ups: new markets, free trade, travel or economic growth (especially for developing nations). It's this latter ...