New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but wants more evidence from Madeleine Beekman's The Origin of Language ...

In human language, syntax is the set of rules that creates a system capable of expressing an infinite number of meanings. “Syntax is all about providing more and more precise, refined information.

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has ...

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn.

The researchers discovered that even long-extinct close human relatives such as Neanderthals—who likely had the anatomical features for speech and carried a variant of another language-linked ...

There Might Be Something Human in the Way Bonobos Communicate—Their Calls Share a Key Trait With Our Language, Study Suggests Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their ...

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Ben Yehuda portrait Eliezer Ben Yehuda (1858-1922), the “Father of the Modern Hebrew Language,” is best known for one of the truly great socio-linguistic events in world history: his virtually ...

Preply, the #1 global language learning marketplace, today unveils a new suite of AI tools designed to accelerate goal-driven language learning. Since launching in 2012, the platform, which connects ...