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Dehumanizing insults have become more common in political discourse. Psychology research has shown that they can prime us for violence – and even change our brains.
The short answer is that the accent you have depends on the people you grew up with and the history of the place that you live in.
Encouraging other languages in the classroom won’t lead to ‘anarchy’.
Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on how your brain fills in gaps in the sounds you hear.
Australia has no policy designating English as the official language, but an explicit ‘English first’ policy for shop signs would treat speakers of every other language as second-class citizens.
Coverage of a new study suggests it’s impossible to become fluent in a foreign language after age ten. But that’s deeply misleading – and not what the study found.
Babies would rather listen to each other than to their parents’ babytalk, according to new research.
Do chimpanzee talk to each other? Scientists follow and record chimpanzees in the wild to find out – and to fill in details about how human language might have evolved.
There have been many theories that try to explain where language came from. None prevailed or even came close to the position of the Darwinism theory in biology or the Big Bang theory in physics.
You’re more likely to know a word but not be able to produce it as you get older. Keeping fit could minimise these lapses.
Marijuana has a rich linguistic tradition. But drive by dispensaries like ‘Advanced Medical Alternatives’ or ‘Alameda Wellness Center,’ and you might think you’re passing the office of a physical therapist.
For the Greek government, having people speaking Macedonian Slavic in its territory did not sit well with its national ideology.
Organisational twaddle is everywhere. It’s time to climb the ‘strategic staircase’ and incentivise our corporate leaders to abandon it.
Medicine is an innovative, rapidly progressing field. Unfortunately, medical language is often stuck in the past.
Raising children to speak more than one language is a challenge for parents in today’s world. Here are some tips to raise bilingual children.
Linguist Alison Long helped translate a best-selling novel into the latest BBC television drama.
Having English as a common language can and does lead to problems.
Language attrition can happen to people who live in a foreign context – and it can be embarrassing.
Each discipline tells us only part of the story. And so the truest picture of prehistory comes from triangulating these independent lines of evidence.
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