From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these ...

A comprehensive new study from NYU Abu Dhabi’s Science Division analyzed scripts from nearly 7,000 episodes of children’s TV shows in the United States spanning 1960 to 2018. It uncovered enduring ...

In 2015, researchers looked closely at his language patterns and discovered a few interesting changes. During press conferences later in his presidency, Reagan used fewer and fewer different words.

This effort relies on a false sense of the stability of language and the assumption that it is possible to identify “direct and universal” meanings (Tao, 2024, p.4) when, in reality, “the meanings of ...

Rachel Mealey: Humpback Whale Song contains some of the same structural hallmarks as human language, according to new research. An international team of linguists, developmental scientists, marine ...