Current Linguistics

Current Linguistics

Choctaw Nation launches Rosetta Stone language app

Also this week: Do languages become less complex with more new adult speakers? + Is it okay to let a language die?

Current Linguistics

Wordsmaxxing: Merriam-Webster adds 1,400 new entries to its dictionary

Also this week: How children talk can indicate risk for future mental health problems + Birdsong and whalesong have both been found to follow a fundamental law of human language

Current Linguistics

What an ape’s laugh can teach us about human language

Also this week: Why grammar snobs don’t actually like language + Bluey released in an Australian indigenous language + Enrollment in advanced language classes dropping in the UK

Current Linguistics

Language genes may be much older than previously thought

Also this week: ConlangCrafter: The AI that invents languages + What linguists think everyone should know about language

Current Linguistics

The Golden Age of Language might have boasted 75,000 languages approximately 2,000 years ago

Also this week: The Herculaneum scrolls are giving up their secrets + The Bantu Expansion: The mass migration that transformed sub-Saharan Africa

Current Linguistics

Why your foreign accent sucks

Also this week: Why you might not want to learn language like a child + How California “Valley Girl” talk changed the way America speaks + Statistical physics reveals how languages evolve

Current Linguistics

When words look like their meaning, we process them faster

Also this week: Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to a Eurovision Song Contest that embraces linguistic diversity + Linguists are mapping Rhode Island’s linguistic diversity

Current Linguistics

Homophones, plurals, and language “rulescucks” are roiling prediction markets

Also this week: More Ukrainians are switching from speaking Russian to Ukrainian + Scientists say AI is bringing us closer to talking to animals + A new book on the world’s vanishing languages

Current Linguistics

New study links receptivity to corporate bullshit to weaker leadership skills

Also this week: New Mexico is losing a form of Spanish spoken nowhere else + Study finds that isolated human groups speak more diverse languages

Current Linguistics

New evidence that language evolved before humans did

Also this week: Universals of swearing across languages + Does learning Latin improve your SAT scores? + What killed penmanship

Current Linguistics

We’re losing 338 spoken words every year, linguists find

Also this week: Sperm whale communication closesly mirrors human language + Why toddlers don’t understand the words “I” and “you”

Current Linguistics

Linguists work to create UK’s first swear map

Also this week: Bumble bees show a surprising knack for rhythm + Sperm whale songs are surprisingly like human language