Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research ...

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more ...

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself ...

Hundreds of hours of recordings suggest that the apes can generate meaning by stringing sounds together in pairs. But some ...

The Tennessee state legislature's one-time transfer bill aimed at the TSSAA passed through its second committee Wednesday.

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Incel - or ‘involuntary celibate’ - ideology is a key theme in Adolescence, and perpetuates the idea of a social hierarchy ...

Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller’s Apple TV show “Severance” introduces a fictional, surgical procedure of the same name that ...

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Watching these realistic scenes of Mumbai, my hometown, in “All We Imagine As Light” on the big screen at the Browning Cinema this weekend felt uncanny — as if India were palpable and all around me in ...

Tucked away in the rolling hills of Ohio’s Amish Country sits a culinary treasure that has locals and travelers alike mapping ...

What is the main motto of language? To communicate with the larger world. And what happens when people from this larger world ...