What shapes the structure of languages? In a new study, an international team of researchers reports that grammatical structure is highly flexible across languages, shaped by common ancestry, ...

Much has been made, in the last 10 years, of the cultural and social adherence to the idea of diversity. The idea of diversity has been one promulgated throughout our education system — secondary and ...

Sanjyot P. Dunung, CEO, Atma Global, an award-winning developer of learning solutions on countries, cultures, business and global topics. Please don’t call me Brown. Yes, the color of my skin may be ...

One in 10 public school students in the United States is classified as an English learner. Yet, many educators report feeling underprepared to support language-diverse classrooms effectively. Teaching ...

On February 24, 2022, on the order of Vladimir Putin, Russian armed forces invaded the sovereign country of Ukraine. This assault is accompanied by a barrage of lies and historical falsehood to ...

Two events that have gone viral on social media have to do with reaction to people speaking Spanish in informal domains. Two women were detained by border agents in Montana for speaking Spanish as ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —The popularity of genetic and ancestry services like Ancestry.com and 23andMe attests that people care about where their ancestors originated. The underlying assumption is that ...

The Yupik language, once common among Inuit communities on the Alaskan coast, is now spoken solely by adults. Children learn only English, making it probable that Yupik will be lost in the next ...

As students head back to class this year, they won't just be hearing a standard "Hello." Instead, greetings will likely span a few different tongues: "Hola" for Spanish speakers, "Nyob zoo" for those ...

>> DID YOU HEAR THAT? THIS IS MY BOSTON ACCENT. >> THIISS MY BOSTON ACCT.EN >> YEAH, IT IS. >> [WHISPERING] THIS IS MY BOSTON ACCENT. KAREN: HAVE YOU EVER TEDRI TO PAHK YOUR CAH IN THE HAH VARD YAHD?

Linguists have long been interested in language variation. What are common or universal patterns across languages? What limits the possible variation between them? Grambank, the world's largest and ...