By analyzing the patterns of mistakes that native speakers of two languages make in English, computers can discern whether two languages might actually be related to one another, as the structures ...
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You know those alien languages you hear in the movies and ever wondered who comes up with them? Well, this article talked about Sara Maria Forsberg, a high school graduate who today is 23 years old...
For some reason, the URL for this article got lost: itʻs https://medium.com/@chacon/mit-scientists-prove-adults-learn-language-to-fluency-nearly-as-well-as-children-1de888d1d45f While the findi...
http://www.cracked.com/article_20744_5-surprising-ways-your-language-affects-how-you-think.html is the full article. It enumerates 5 ways language can affect thinking: examine each section for the...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/wakanda-black-panther.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FLanguage%20and%20Languages&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&m...
Although there are thousands of different languages in the world, english is one the most prominent languages in the world. The asian continent may have more native languages than the rest of the ...
Learning a new language used to mean having to sit down with a book or attend a class, or if you were technologically advanced, listen to a language tape. Learning a new language now, however, is m...
A settlement on a remote island off of Australia's Northern Coast called the Warruwi Community consists of 500 people who speak 9 different languages. Although there are 9 languages that coexist wi...
This article discusses the integration of coding classes in schools, and how some lawmakers want to take it a step further and allow coding to be a substitute for foreign language requirements. Cod...
This study aimed to validate the effects of second language learning on children's linguistic awareness. More particularly, it examined whether bilingual background improves the ability to manipula...
An academic at Cambridge taught himself to speak ancient Babylonian and has started a campaign to revive the language 2,000 years after it died out. Dr. Worthington has been teaching himself the la...
This article investigates whether English has words that encapsulate a single idea, rather than explaining it in several words. In other languages, such as Swedish or Norwegian, one single word can...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26910181
This study is the first known comprehensive study in language and communication abilities of adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and aimed to clarify the extent of PAE's effects. Among...
This article is on how languages become dead or extinct. The article also delves into what steps we can take to preserve languages and make sure we prevent this from happening.
Many seem to associate our vocal tracts and mouths as the organs that produce language. However, how is it that the deaf can use sign language and the blind read braille? The primary organ responsi...
A telltale stretch of DNA at a gene called ROBO2 is linked to the number of words that a child masters in the early stage of talking, they reported in the journal Nature Communications. ROBO2 cont...
