Scientific Studies

What Does It Mean To Be Bilingual?

What goes on in the brain of a bilingual person, and what are the effects of being raised in two languages?

ByMarion Maurin

The Science of Bad Words: Why Do We Swear?

What makes a word a swear word? Why do we swear? What happens in your brain when you drop an F-bomb? Straight from Brooklyn, New York: the science of swearing.

ByJohn-Erik Jordan

Is The Semicolon Dying In The US? See How Well You Know This Punctuation Mark

ByBabbel

From Cyberspace To The Metaverse: 9 Everyday Words Science Fiction Gave Us

ByHannah Wehrle

How Does The Brain Understand Language?

ByThomas Moore Devlin

How Do Humans Acquire A Language?

ByThomas Moore Devlin

An Introduction To Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnolinguistics And Their Connections To Language

ByShantal Garces

Why Italians Talk With Their Hands (And Scandinavians Don’t)

ByJames Lane

Is There A Link Between Dreaming And Language Learning?

ByJames Lane

Where Did Indo-European Languages Originate, Anyway?

BySteph Koyfman

Are Kids Speaking Differently Because Of COVID?

BySteph Koyfman

Let’s Bust Some Myths About Raising Bilingual Children

ByKatrin Sperling

Are The Sound And Meaning Of Words Connected?

ByThomas Moore Devlin

What Is Translanguaging, And How Is The Concept Being Used?

ByThomas Moore Devlin