What Do Students Hear When Science Says “We’re Not Sure”?
Science has its own set of language norms. Understanding those norms is important to understanding the science being communicated.
Category: Linguistics
How Children Learn Language
Children learn language for the first time in a cool way, and the good news is that adults can, too. Find out how.
Children Create Foundation for New Language in Minutes
By Shelby Nilsen Human language is unlike any other form of natural communication. It is the fundamental mechanism that we…
How Some Words Get Forgetted
Get ready for a dive into linguistic history! Our friend Dr. Joe Hanson from It’s Okay to Be Smart (PBS…
Language Detectives
Where did the Uto-Aztecan language originate? An interdisciplinary research project looked at a set of 100 words to understand the sound…