What's in a name? A linguistics expert explains why some baby names dominate the charts year after year
What do names like Noah, James, Mateo, Mia, Evelyn and Luna all have in common?
What do names like Noah, James, Mateo, Mia, Evelyn and Luna all have in common?
Social Sciences
May 15, 2024
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Imagine your mother has cancer. You just heard about a promising new experimental treatment and want to enroll her in the study. However, your mother immigrated to the U.S. as an adult and speaks limited English. When you ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2023
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Recent research conducted at Georgia State University shows that native language affects how people convey information from a young age and hints at the presence of a universal system of communication.
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2023
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English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English—the majority of people around the world.
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2023
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Get down from the car. If this expression doesn't sound familiar, you're probably not from Miami.
Social Sciences
May 11, 2023
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Let's get two things straight. Firstly, counting the number of words in a language is no easy feat. And secondly, linguistics expert Kenny Smith is skeptical of the the claim that English has a far larger vocabulary than ...
Social Sciences
Sep 27, 2022
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Southern dialects may be spreading across the UK, but the North is pushing back in some areas, new research has shown.
Social Sciences
Aug 8, 2022
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A Department of Modern Languages course sparked an opportunity for four Carnegie Mellon University students to publish and present research at the 2021 Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium ...
Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2021
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English has become the de facto language of science: International conferences are held in English, the world's top scientific journals are in English and academics in non-English speaking countries get promoted based on ...
Education
Oct 15, 2020
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Some people stereotype Asian students as the "model minority" in math achievement: they generalize attributes of a so-called "minority" (racialized) community in a way that just perpetuates racism disguised as a compliment.
Education
Jul 28, 2020
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