Tag: Linguistics
Your political views can predict how you pronounce certain words
Zachary Jaggers, University of Oregon
Politics can predict the TV shows we watch, the shops we frequent and the places we live.
But what about the...
One skill that doesn’t deteriorate with age
Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis
When Toni Morrison died on Aug. 5, the world lost one of its most influential literary voices.
But Morrison wasn’t...
Curious Kids: Why do we say ‘OK’?
Elly van Gelderen, Arizona State University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
Softer, processed foods changed the way ancient humans spoke
Steven Moran, University of Zürich and Balthasar Bickel, University of Zürich
The human capacity for language divides our species from the rest of the animal...
As marijuana goes mainstream, what’s happening to the way we talk...
Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville
For decades, the marijuana industry operated underground, outside the confines of the law.
But even though at the federal level, possession...
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...
Driverless cars might follow the rules of the road, but what...
Abdesalam Soudi, University of Pittsburgh
Recently, while on my way to the University of Pittsburgh’s campus, I made a quick “Pittsburgh left” – taking a...
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...
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...
