In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for ...

In a new paper titled "Syntactic and Semantic Gender Biases in the Language on Children's Television: Evidence from a Corpus of 98 Shows from 1960 to 2018," researchers Andrea Vial, Aida ...

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 biologists and ...