Tag: language
How people talk now holds clues about human migration centuries ago
Nicole Creanza, Vanderbilt University and André Ché Sherriah, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Often, you can tell where someone grew up by the...
Languages don’t all have the same number of terms for colors...
Ted Gibson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bevil R. Conway, National Institutes of Health
People with standard vision can see millions of distinct colors. But...
Combatting stereotypes about Appalachian dialects
Kirk Hazen, West Virginia University
During the 2016 presidential election, broad support for Donald Trump came from most communities in Appalachia, where he received 63...
Brain-imaging modern people making Stone Age tools hints at evolution of...
Shelby Putt, Indiana University
How did humans get to be so smart, and when did this happen? To untangle this question, we need...
Recreating language’s Big Bang through a game of vocal charades
Recreating language's Big Bang through a game of vocal charades
Marcus Perlman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Roughly 7,000 languages are used around the world, and many thousands...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
