Punctuation in literature of major languages is intriguingly mathematical
A moment's hesitation... Yes, a full stop here – but shouldn’t there be a comma there? Or would a hyphen ...
Tag: Languages
Grambank shows the diversity of the world’s languages
Linguists have long been interested in language variation. What are common or universal patterns across languages? What limits the possible ...
Internet treatment program to prevent child sexual abuse launched in several languages
Following a successful pilot study, an online anonymous treatment program aimed at reducing child sexual abuse by providing treatment to ...
Khanty dialects differ more than Slavic languages
Idalia Fedotova, researcher at HSE University and the RAS Ivannikov Institute for System Programming, examined lexical differences across Khanty dialects and found ...
The universal sound of swearing across languages
Swear words across different languages may tend to lack certain sounds such as l, r, and w, suggests research published in Psychonomic Bulletin & ...
New evidence suggests love languages are important for heterosexual relationship satisfaction
New evidence supports the idea that heterosexual relationship satisfaction is linked to fulfillment of people’s personal preferences for receiving affection ...
Want more students to learn languages? Win over the parents, research suggests
Children’s attitudes towards learning languages and their willingness to see themselves as ‘multilingual’ are influenced far more by the views ...
Can artificial intelligence reveal why languages change over time?
The way we speak today isn’t the way that people talked thousands—or even hundreds—of years ago. William Shakespeare’s line, “to ...
Lessons from modern languages – and a little help from Taylor Swift – can reboot Latin learning
Fan fiction, Minecraft and Taylor Swift lyrics are hardly the stuff of traditional Latin lessons. They are, however, part of ...
Using an “unseen species” model to estimate survival rates of medieval literature uncovers surprising differences between persistence of works in different languages
To tackle a problem for scholars who study past cultures – the way numerous artefacts that would inform the cultural ...
Dog brains can distinguish between languages
Dog brains can detect speech, and show different activity patterns to a familiar and an unfamiliar language, a new brain ...
1,500 endangered languages at high risk of being lost this century
A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.Credit: Photo: Jamie ...
Moscow State Linguistic University’s journal Languages and Modalities on ARPHA Platform
Languages and Modalities, a new peer-reviewed international journal published by the Moscow State Linguistic University, now uses a high-end publishing ...