This article talked compared the learning of language between adults and children. There were various studies that took place in this article. They concluded that there was an age cutoff at 17 to learn a new language. They also talked about when the "critical period" is. Overall, they compared age with how well the person could pick up the language.

In this article, scientist Wilkie Freud followed a group of chimpanzees around to learn more about the origin of language. The human lineage broke from chimpanzees roughly 7.9 million years ago. The study they found was that the chimpanzees use language when necessary, like when a snake is seen. They will shout an alarm call to warn other about the danger. They also seem to grunt when they enjoy food. This shows how chimpanzees and humans have similar but very different types of language.

This discusses how and why humans would rather text each other than have an actual conversation. They discuss a few positive and negative points within the article. This talks about how technology is shaping the way we communicate with each other

This article provided a great amount of information based on the negative affects texting has on us. Although there were not much on the statistics, the ideas were all there and supported by authors opinions. The author brought up a lot of valid points within the article.