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
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
Current Linguistics
Did Homo erectus have language?
Also this week: Did writing just get pushed back tens of thousands of years? + How slang works + We finally understand why horses whinny
Newsletter
Do these Stone Age symbols push back the origins of writing by tens of thousands of years?
Nope. The real finding is even cooler.
Current Linguistics
How your brain separates sounds into words
Also this week: How toddlers in Finland are saving an endangered Sámi language + Language learning can help lower dementia risk by 40%
Current Linguistics
The way we read in our first language influences how we read in other languages
Also this week: AI models can now analyze language as well as humans + The first monolingual Irish dictionary is published
Current Linguistics
Could Neanderthals handle language variation?
Also this week: Jane Goodall dies at 91 + Merriam-Webster adds 5,000 words to the dictionary
Current Linguistics
Learning a second language can teach you to distinguish colors you don’t have in your first language
Also this week: Gesture may have been the origin of language + A new mind-reading AI can turn imagined speech into words. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Current Linguistics
Did technology drive the evolution of language? Or was it music?
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Current Linguistics
Islands are incubators of linguistic diversity, and people are more likely to cooperate with those who use similar linguistic constructions
Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.
Current Linguistics
When did humans develop language? + How whistle languages work
When language evolved, how whistled languages work, and what alien languages might be like. Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.