Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...
A news study captures self-reported shifts in speech and slang, and it shows the dialects fading across the country.
The Wyoming Senate is advancing a first-of-its-kind resolution asking Congress to let the state run the federal mineral leasing program within ...
N.Y., is being mocked for what one critic called an “absolute train wreck" weekend full of gaffes while in Germany for the ...
Emily Johnston, a writing studies professor at UC Merced, has researched how the act of writing rewires the brain to build ...
Pet soundboards allow our four-legged friends to press buttons and express themselves in human language. But is it real? UC ...
Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...
Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English. Now with more than a million ...
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show divided viewers as he made history as the first ever Spanish language singer to ...
The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is hardly the only language that has been experimenting with a gender-neutral ...
Harvard economist Roland Fryer discovered something remarkable while studying the Harlem Children's Zone. They had eliminated the racial achievement gap in math and cut it by a third in reading. But ...