
Discovery Dispatch
How hypothetical are protolanguages?
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.
A weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books and other media dealing with language and linguistics.
Discovery Dispatch
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.
Discovery Dispatch
This week I discuss the growth of science communication in linguistics, plus how simple gestures can counteract subtle linguistic biases.
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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.
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gen z loves lowercase, but they’re losing their southern drawl. meanwhile trump makes english the official language (sort of).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An analysis of the linguistics of The Three-Body Problem, and new research claiming to reconstruct Proto-Australian.
Discovery Dispatch
Discovery Dispatch is a weekly roundup of the latest language-related news, research in linguistics, interesting reads from the week, and newest books and media!