Language learning is a human universality. There is no human culture without language, and in every culture, children naturally pick up the language or languages used by those around them. Yet cultures and languages are extremely ...
Social Sciences
Mar 13, 2023
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The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could discover the true, unlearned language of ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2023
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If you observe people's daily communication and spontaneous speech, you will find an interesting phenomenon. Apart from words, phrases and sentences, human speech contains many pauses, such as "um" and "uh" in English or ...
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2023
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News headlines often give the impression of teacher shortages as national and state level crises, but if policymakers want to ensure classrooms are adequately staffed, they need to examine and address labor market conditions ...
Economics & Business
Feb 7, 2023
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Humans retain an understanding of gestures made by other great apes, even though we no longer use them ourselves, according to a study by Kirsty E. Graham and Catherine Hobaiter at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2023
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In August 2022, Statistics Canada released the latest census data on languages in Canada. According to the data, over nine million people—or one in four Canadians—has a mother tongue other than English or French (a record ...
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2023
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A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge. Rishi Rajpopat made the breakthrough by decoding a rule ...
Archaeology
Dec 14, 2022
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When did humans first begin to speak, which speech sounds were uttered first, and when did language evolve from those humble beginnings? These questions have long fascinated people, especially in tracing the evolution of ...
Evolution
Dec 12, 2022
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As a species, humans are constantly interpreting signals to assess social situations and make predictions about what could happen next. Being able to tell if someone else, whether human or animal, is happy with us, about ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 7, 2022
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A new paper proposes that Homo sapiens may have been responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals not by violence, but through sex instead.
Evolution
Oct 31, 2022
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