According to a new study carried out by a group of scientists including Dr Peter Dodds from the University of Vermont, all human languages skew toward...
Individuals who speak two or more languages, even those who acquired the second language in adulthood, may slow down cognitive decline from aging, according...
New research on vocalizations of wild chimpanzees has demonstrated that their alarm calls have numerous hallmarks of intentional communication.
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A new study published in the journal Language (full paper) provides the first empirical evidence to prove that television viewing does help to accelerate...
Language can play a powerful role in what we see, say Prof Gary Lupyan from the University of Wisconsin and Emily Ward from Yale University.
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Dr Carmel O’Shannessy, a linguist with the University of Michigan, has reported new information on the structure and origins of Light Warlpiri, a recently...
According to new research reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, the geographic context in which a language is spoken may directly impact its phonological...
A new doctoral thesis by Eva-Marie Ström from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden is the first attempt ever to explore Ndengeleko, a language that...
According to a new study led by Dr Gillian Forrester of the University of Sussex, a predominance to be right-handed is not a uniquely human trait but one...
A team of Lund University scientists has discovered that the accelerated learning of foreign languages can lead to the growth of language-related regions...
Dutch linguists have developed a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to analyze the evolution of structural features in more than 50 language...
An innovative computational approach applied by an international team of linguists sheds new light on the origins of Indo-European languages.
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A linguistics researcher at the Macquarie University in Australia has discovered that the language, known as Burushaski, which is spoken by about 90,000...
Archaeologists working in Turkey have found the evidence for a previously unknown ancient language which dates back more than 2,500 years, to the time...
