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 ...