Tag: Linguistics
The Constitution promises an interpreter for fair trials – US courts...
Carol Rose Little, University of Oklahoma
In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Is baby talk bad? Why ‘parentese’ actually helps babies learn language
Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University
Many parents have heard the warning: Don’t use baby talk with...
A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last...
Andrew Cowell, University of Colorado Boulder
I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a...
Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that...
Daniel J. Olson, Purdue University
English should be the official language of the United States, says a new executive...
Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay:...
Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno
Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb...
Why some people talk very fast and others … take …...
Michelle Devereaux, Kennesaw State University and Chris C. Palmer, Kennesaw State University
Pop culture abounds with examples of very...
Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can...
Georgi Gardiner, University of Tennessee
What is love? Could those feelings you label as love be something else?
‘Thirst trap’ and ‘edgelord’ were recently added to the dictionary –...
Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis
A student in my graduate seminar recently mentioned seeing her “niblings” at Thanksgiving....
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
