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This is an interesting page from dictionary.com the qualifications that a word needs and the process a word goes through to change from just a word to a part of an official dictionary.

This article goes over the effects of adults speaking directly to toddlers and their language development.

Although the expectation of how the English language develops in other countries may seem positive, the reality isn't the same. For example, students are being taught Krio, a dialect similar to English, but not English. This makes it unfair for those students when they get older because they were never taught the right English. Because of the difference between expectation and reality, specialists have been searching for ways to balance them out.

Research has found that fungi send electrical signals to each other through underground filaments. Electrodes were inserted near mushrooms and signals were recorded to find that electrical signals resembled vocabularies much like words in the English language.

This was a research study conducted about vaccine rhetoric with participants that spoke different languages. The researchers found that depending on whether the participant viewed a foreign language as more trustworthy, they might be more inclined to follow the advice of that language over their own language. The opposite is also true if they find their first language more trustworthy and persuasive.

New research on language acquisition in babies leads scientists to believe that babies map sounds and critical aspects of their language before they begin speaking.

How does your phone affect your attention span? This article looks at how younger generations have a shorter attention span because of our constant use of phones. Also has a few tips for improving attention and focus.

This article talks about how what we say can create stigma around mental health and the reaction our brains have to this language, as well as things we should avoid saying.

This article talks about the different marketing/persuasion tactics using language and what plays a role in convincing people.

This opinion piece reasons that more power will go to the rich and there is no contesting their power no matter if the implications are good or bad.

I liked using this article for my Field Research project because it helped to answer a lot of the "why?" questions I had. For example, I found that gratitude journaling was beneficial for sleep quality and this article explained how gratitude can help us to have better pre-sleep cognitions, which calms the nervous system. It also led me to a lot of other good sources.

Cartoonist LA Johnson employs a graphic novel-style approach to a story about a dual-language school: Bruce-Monroe Elementary School in Washington, D.C. In a dual-language classroom, sometimes you're the student and sometimes you're the teacher. Here's what it's like for 6-year-old Merari, an L1=Spanish ELL (English Language Learner).

With topics ranging from slang etymology to how slang affects a culture. "Slang is a reaction to standard language. To have slang, I think you need to have a tradition of education to emphasize the importance of the standard language. You also need to have a stratified society with a certain amount of mobility in it, so very different kinds of people have opportunities to mingle. Finally, I think you have to have an established cultural tendency toward irreverence. You have to have the standard and at the same time a popular skepticism about it."