Tag: linguistics
Is the Internet Making Us Dumber? Lol, no.
Facebook posts and text messages are far from being bastions
of grammar. People’s communication online has an informal quality that is often
at odds with established...
Languages, Plants, and People
K. David Harrison on Environmental Linguistics
This is the first of an ongoing series of articles that Language Magazine will be publishing to call attention to...
Have Fun Learning
If kids are having fun while learning a language, it is much more likely they will enjoy it and want to keep learning. One...
“The Emergence of Culture Out of Anarchy”: Self-Organization in the English Language
The English language has progressed over time without a...
Poly Aims to Share ALL the World’s Languages
Poly began after a successful Kickstarter campaign last year as an open source, modern software built to share and learn languages in text and...
Even Lost Languages Rewire Brain
Research also demonstrates brain's plasticity and ability to adapt to new language environments
In a paper published in December's Nature Communications, researchers from Canada's McGill...
Chinese Language Trouble with the New Zealand Census
Chinese would be the third most common language spoken in New Zealand (NZ) if the NZ Chinese Language Week Trust goes along with its...
Artificial Neural Network Learns Language
Researchers from Sassari University and Plymouth University have made a cognitive model of networked artificial neurons that can learn language with no prior knowledge....
The Environmental Link to Language Evolution
According to new research by linguists from the University of New Mexico and Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage-CNRS in France, the characteristics of languages have...
Ancient Script Discovered in Georgia
2,700-year-old inscriptions found by archeologists at the ancient site of Grakliani Hill in Georgia places prehistoric Georgia as one of the first civilizations to...
Preserving Australia’s First Languages
The Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language and the Australian National University (ANU) are teaming up to document...
Whistled Turkish; or, the Bird Language
Whether a language is spoken, written, or signed with the hands, it is generally agreed that language processing occurs mostly in the left side...
