For decades, scholars believed children’s speech errors were the seeds of language change, but new research challenges that ...

So random, and yet so normal. Letters tend to generate expressions. “OK” started in Jacksonian America with a jolly ...

Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but wants more evidence from Madeleine Beekman's The Origin of Language ...

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

The social media generations For insight into how language is changing and how it may evolve in the future, look no further than Generation Alpha.

The social media generations For insight into how language is changing and how it may evolve in the future, look no further than Generation Alpha.

"This runs counter to general beliefs about how language evolves over time," said Gaurav Kamath, a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at McGill and the lead author on the paper published recently in the ...

Language evolves over time, and the way people use words can change, leading to confusion or irritation for those who value precise language.

This fecundity is evidence not only of how language evolves but also of how dialects mix. And it’s fun. Back in the days of Middle English, the way to communicate agreement was “yea verily.” ...