This summer, UC Berkeley’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures will offer an upper-division course titled ...

What shapes the structure of languages? In a new study, an international team of researchers reports that grammatical structure is highly flexible across languages, shaped by common ancestry, ...

Language ideologies encompass the beliefs and attitudes that speakers and institutions hold about varieties of language, linking everyday linguistic practice to wider social, political and economic ...

In the multilingual milieu of Singapore, language variation and policy interplay to shape both individual identities and national cohesion. Centuries of colonial rule, rapid post-independence economic ...

Introduction: language ideology: science fiction? -- The linguistic facts of life -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language ideology and the language subordination model -- ...

In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, increased by more than 500%. Most of those who have ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. It is a deep ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...

Limits on variation could be related to cognitive principles rooted in memory or learning, rendering some grammatical structures more likely than others. Limits could also be related to historical ...