If you want to speak like a native during Mardi Gras, here's a short glossary that will help you talk the talk.

New research in the Strait of Gibraltar captured dozens of vocalizations from an endangered subpopulation of killer whales ...

The mother of a Virginia high schooler demanded answers and accountability from school board officials after her son was called a racial slur during a […] ‘No Law Against a Word’: Virginia Mother Says ...

Created by Oscar Rodriguez, who sometimes goes by the name "El Marfa," the series honors the Texas borderlands patois commonly called Caló. Oscar grew up speaking this language in Ojinaga and Odessa.

In a previous post, I examined the psychological power of conjunctions, especially that warm, fuzzy, inclusive conjunction: and. Here we expand our focus to the psychological power of words in general ...

The explosive success of Bad Bunny has brought Puerto Rican Spanish, a Caribbean dialect known for its musical rhythm, to the ...

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Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

Language is a means of communicating complex ideas or feelings. Although human language can be verbal or non-verbal, it is more complex than any form of animal communication and reflects the culture ...

We take a look at some Glasgow’s favourite words and phrases.

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...

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