Language helps define the way people think about themselves and their culture. It does so by shaping the way we think, feel ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

This Pew Research Center analysis explores attitudes on the importance of language, customs and traditions, birthplace, and religion as components of national identity in 23 countries in North America ...

As language users, we have a lot of flexibility in the way we use words. Only the rules of grammar might constrain the order of words used and consequently change the meaning of a sentence. The ...

Immigrants are more likely to be seen as unique individuals with their own thoughts and intentions, rather than assuming they all share the same group beliefs, when the media describes them with ...

A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Emergentist vs. Nativist Views Consider the Role of Genetic and Evolutionary Forces on Linguistic Development Source: Image generated by OpenAI's DALL·E At the end of the twentieth century, a battle ...

Brian Tweed worked for the Ministry of Education as a contractor in 2024 working on the Pāngarau (mathematics) curriculum. Pania Te Maro was contracted by the Ministry of Education as a lead writer ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the ...