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A Test That Quantifies Basic Language-Learning Ability
Are some people just better at becoming fluent in new languages as adults?
Why Babies In Arabic-Speaking Households Learn Some Numbers Faster
What language you hear growing up--Arabic and Slovenian are especially good--affects how you learn to count.
The Different Ways Men And Women Talk On Facebook
Word clouds from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers
Why Chinese Kids Are Terrible At Spelling Bees
Globalization brings texting and spelling bees to China, with unfortunate results.
Why Some Words Sound Fat
Doesn't caramel ice cream sound heavy? Where vowel sounds come from in the mouth influences how we think about a word.
How Computer Analysis Uncovered J. K. Rowling’s Secret Novel
Or, how your four-grams may be undermining your anonymous erotica-writing career
Language May Have Evolved Way Earlier Than We Thought
New research suggests our Neanderthal cousins might have been super chatty.
Watch A Linguist Translate Teens’ Annoying Groans Into Even More Annoying Academic Jargon
"Breathy-voiced long low back unrounded vowel with advanced tongue root?" Auggghhh.
How People Explain Color Throughout The World [Infographic]
This clever color wheel reveals how different languages explain the color spectrum, whether in three words or more than 60 words.
Japanese Create A Mutant Mouse That Tweets Like a Bird
A laboratory at the University of Osaka running an ongoing study on evolution has revealed that they’ve produced a genetically...