How a Tiny Gene Mutation May Have Shaped Human Language
A gene mutation in the brain 200,000 years ago may be responsible for human language, as seen in a controlled experiment on the NOVA1 gene.
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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.
Preference for Positive, Happy Words
Scientists have used a massive data set of billions of words from actual usage to find that people around the world use more happy words than sad words.
Music Helps Rebuild Language After Stroke
Stroke survivors with aphasia, the loss of language skills, are helped in their recovery by listening to music with lyrics.
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…
Language Detectives of the Americas
Shelf Life: The Language Detectives This episode of the Shelf Life video series details how two curators at the American…