After parsing chatbots’ strange tics and tendencies—such as overusing the word “delve” most likely because it’s in a ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...

A new dialect has been emerging from certain parts of Miami due to cultural intermingling between Spanish and English speakers. The distinct dialect is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English, born ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

The fusion of Latin and Anglo-American cultures in South Florida in the latter half of the 20th century has created a new dialect, linguists say. Known as Miami English, the increasingly popular ...

If you speak English with a California accent but you want to learn to speak Sindarin like a native — that is, like a Middle Earth elf — where do you start? Begin with vowel sounds, said Leith ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Like humans, parrots have distinct vocal dialects and, like humans, they learn those dialects from their family and friends, so those dialects change when they relocate to a new area. Yellow-naped ...

Listen close to the New Orleans band Sweet Crude, and you'll hear a linguistic relic from America's deep South. They sing in Louisiana French, a dialect spoken for generations in Louisiana — until the ...