The idea that the Australian accent may be the product of drunkenness in early European settlers is wildly speculative. And yet it has gained international attention in the past week. Why?
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A satirical manga cartoon of a Syrian refugee child has had the internet up in arms – but there’s plenty more tone-deafness where that came from.
The discovery that “Huh?” crops up in many languages may have won the researchers an Ig Nobel Prize. But they found much more than that in their search for the universals in language.
Beyond the cool factor of figuring out hominin hearing capacities two million years ago, these findings could help answer the tantalizing question of when did human vocalized language first emerge.
The language survived against the odds and is now a central part of Catalan identity.
What’s in a name? Many words are arbitrary – there’s no reason a dog must be called a dog or a table must be called a table. Why do we tend to assume there’s a reason any object has its specific name?
Al-Jazeera has changed its style guide, while others continue to debate the issue.
In Uganda, private schools are simply ignoring a policy that calls for pupils to learn in a mother tongue rather than in English for the first three years of their education.
Long before ‘sup’ and ‘hwu’ there was ‘Hw r u ts mng?’
What can a bunch of people grunting in a lab teach us about our capacity to create language systems? A lot about the gesture- or vocalization-based origins of language.
Unless young children are totally immersed in a foreign language, they actually learn it better when they’re a bit older.
Did your child just drop the F-bomb? What can you do?
There are two functions of language: communication and access to knowledge. Each must be pursued as an objective in its own right rather than being lumped together.
In the face of war, disease and outside cultural pressures, the Chitimacha language has survived – and now thrives.
Parental concerns that Minions given as toys in McDonald’s Happy Meals have been dropping the F-bomb raises an issue: how far – if at all – should we go to prevent children from exposure to “bad” language?
Language can subtly undermine women’s sports in a number of ways.
There’s an ongoing debate about how best to promote multilingualism in schools. But is this debate relevant when it comes to teaching science?
After being in decline for a decade, a new policy could kick-start language learning.
Language experts review how one of the world’s most popular language learning apps measures up against traditional teaching.
Shakespeare didn’t ‘lol,’ but he did ‘ha, ha, he.’
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
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Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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