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Linguistic Discovery explores the science and diversity of language, a field known as linguistics.
How hypothetical are protolanguages? How did the Indo-Europeans spread? What does conversation look like in the brain? Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
This week I discuss the growth of science communication in linguistics, plus how simple gestures can counteract subtle linguistic biases.
Where do the words “avocado” and “guacamole” come from?
Babies can learn multiple languages from birth—and they’ll slow the onset of dementia if they do. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Trump issued an executive order making English the official language of the U.S.—sort of. Here’s what that order does, and what language in the U.S. looks like today.
gen z loves lowercase, but they’re losing their southern drawl. meanwhile trump makes english the official language (sort of).
The Linguistic Discovery newsletter just reached 1,000 subscribers! 🎉 And linguist Danny L. Bate suggests that Proto-Indo-European didn’t have Subject-Object-Verb word order after all.
A recent article argues that AI is wrecking language, and new research has found a "language protein". Here's what happened this week in language and linguistics.
The Hawaiian language only has 8 consonants. So how does it deal with sounds in words borrowed from other languages?
The etymology of the word "love" and all its related words in English.
New DNA evidence emerges in the hunt for the first speakers of Indo-European, and researchers discover that whalesong shares a property of human language never before found in the animal kingdom.
An analysis of the linguistics of The Three-Body Problem, and new research claiming to reconstruct Proto-Australian.