The words "mama", "cookie", and "paper" might seem innocuous and common enough, but they share a linguistic quality that's statistically rare within the world's collective lexicon: They all contain a ...

For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...

From 6-7 to 'cooked' to 'my bad,' here's the 50th annual list of banished words and phrases from Lake Superior State ...

Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the ...

Lake Superior State University presents the 50th annual Banished Words List, a tradition highlighting the importance and ...

Lake Superior State University presented its 50th annual Banished Words list, an idea that began at a New Year’s Eve party in 1976 and has grown into a reflection on the evolution of language. More ...

Few animals appear to be able to communicate with a range as complex and intricate as humans. Those language skills may exist in a limited capacity in our nearest evolutionary neighbors, the great ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...