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This article describes and analyzes a study conducted on bilingual babies. It found that bilingual babies are able to distinguish different languages, and they don't just think there are two words for everything. The researchers would give commands in both languages and take note of eye-movement and pupil dilation. This provided insight on how the babies processed different languages. The researchers also expanded their experiment to adults, and found that adults process different languages the same way that the infants did. The article concludes that there are substantial benefits to growing up bilingual.

An article on how many endangered languages are dying out

The article details changes in the verb that has the most meanings. Currently, the verb with the most definitions appears to be run, but it was not always this way. Other verbs such as "put" and "set" used to have more, but over time, "run" has out paced them. The article finishes by explaining a potential reason for this change and how British versus American culture could have had an effect.

There are many laws of linguistics that exist in human communication. Laws such as Zipf's law of abbreviation, which predicts commonly used words to be short, and Menzerath's law, which predicts that large linguistic structures are made of shorter ones. This article talks about a study conducted by a team of researchers from the University of Roehampton, which explores the parallels of these linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication. They measured the length of over 2000 gestures, and found that they indeed used shorter gestures if they were using it more frequently and long gestures were composed of the shorter ones.

This article discusses the important impact emojis have had on digital communication. "Emoji help add context to our digital communication so we can distinguish the tone or mood of the message. They also act as flair, letting people show a bit of their personality and have some fun in the process."

One of the simplest concepts of sports psychology is developing positive self talk. It's also one of the hardest sports psychology skills to master. Research supports the theory that an athlete who continually practices positive self talk will improve his or her sports performance. Succumbing to negative mental self talk is a sure way to reduce performance and sports success. Over time and with repetition an athlete can develop a new habit of thinking positive statements and thoughts and expect a more positive outcome. It's this connection between the words and the belief that is the ultimate goal of this technique. Another important factor of positive self talk is that it must be possible and believable.

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 article talked about the benefits of playing video games for language development since players are immersed in an environment where there is repetition of language through characters, environments, etc. They also learn grammar from dialogue within the game

This article was really interesting because it talked about how emojis are changing the way we communicate with each other. It talked about how emojis are replacing words in a simpler form, which can decrease the effectiveness of communicating with other people.

This article talks about how children grasp language especially in correlation to physical objects. Further, the article mentions how a study conducted show children's own experience helps them learn new words. Interestingly when parents point out an object the child must attempt to find the object, whereas when children are holding the object the connection between the world is easier.