language

Commentary The mills of political correctness grind exceeding fine: Nothing is too unimportant to escape their grinding action. The New York Times recently reported the death of the journalist Jim ...

Commentary Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country becomes irregular ...

Man of letters Samuel Johnson once remarked, “Depend on it, sir, when a man knows he is to ...

A new policy in Inner Mongolia to mandate Mandarin Chinese-only teaching for some school grades and the phasing ...

Protests erupted across China’s Inner Mongolia region with thousands of ethnic Mongols angry over the Chinese regime’s new ...

A majority of people most feel loved primarily through one language. So if your spouse is not tuned ...

San Francisco, which according to a recent study (pdf) on criminality in 30 big American cities is second ...

This misuse of language, particularly by those who lead us and shape our culture, degrades us. It degrades ...

Phone Bots A decade ago, voice mail bots would say "I'll record your message now," and "I'll try ...

Commentary Immigration reform requires a political and social environment in which well-meaning individuals can speak honestly about the ...

CBS Corp has placed television executive Vincent Favale on leave after earlier allegations of using sexual and homophobic ...

The animals supposedly wait for other dolphins to finish communicating.

One company believes its product can create "a world without language barriers." After two years of research and development, Waverly Labs ...

The ability to speak more than one language certainly has its perks. It enables you to work in ...

Three young Swiss entrepreneurs think they have found an easy, affordable, and stress-free way to cross the language ...

Or why do programs continue to stumble on what seem like easy translations?

In an essay describing the loathing that Ted Cruz's face seems to inspire, the neurologist Richard Cytowic resorts ...

If you want to learn a foreign language, should you begin before a certain age in order to ...

Even the best poker players have “tells” that give away when they’re bluffing. Scientists who commit fraud have ...

If researcher Elizabeth Petitti played two musical notes from her laptop, some people would hear the notes rise ...

First of all, it is important to note that language evolves organically with the passage of time. The ...

Two-year-olds who know lots of words are more likely to start kindergarten ready to read, to do math, ...

By early childhood, the sight regions of a blind person’s brain respond to sound, especially spoken language, new ...

A new study is the first to link an early social behavior called gaze shifting with infants’ ability ...

We’ve all had our mind go blank in the middle of a conversation.

Mothers who are “mind-minded,” or able to “tune in” to their baby’s thoughts and feelings by engaging in ...

Music training, introduced as late as high school, may help improve how a teenager’s brain responds to sound ...