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Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-genomic-capacity-language-emerged-years.html16
9mon
As English as you can get in America... and probably around the world
As English as you can get in America... and probably around the world
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20190623-the-us-island-that-speaks-elizabethan-english
@linguistics
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The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231025-the-surprisingly-subtle-ways-microsoft-word-has-changed-the-way-we-use-language13
9mon
There’s a Word for That: Can language describe everything we feel—and should it?
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/theres-a-word-for-that/16
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Social media is changing the way you talk - Adam Aleksic's TEDx Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M8ZxQiK4qoDiscussed are things like why kids say someone's been "unalived", some surprising etymologies (and how incel terminology is widespread on TikTok), why cottagecore exploded from nothing, and whether we're cooked. ... read full post
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Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-switch-soft-food-gave-us-overbite-and-ability-pronounce-f-s-and-v-sDon't like the F-word? Blame farmers and soft food. When humans switched to processed foods after the spread of agriculture, they put less wear and tear on their teeth. That changed the growth of their jaws, giving adults the overbites normal in children. Within a few thousand years, those slight overbites made it easy for people in farming cultures to fire off sounds like "f" and "v," opening a world of new words. ... read full post
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The Syntax of Natural Language [book]
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_facbooks/50/19
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Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European Language Family
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/ancient-dna-study-identifies-originators-indo-european-language-familyMind you this is all very fuzzy, take with salt.
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[Meta] Requesting community feedback on potential rule changes
Changes highlighted in italics: ... read full post
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Humpback whale song shown to be structurally similar to human language
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-humpback-whale-song-shown-similar.htmlApparently humpback whale songs show a few features in common with human language; such as being culturally transmitted through social interactions between whales. ... read full post
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bro wake up, seven new laryngeals have dropped
from Yuri Shevelov's Prehistory of Slavic (1964)
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The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/magazine/russian-language-kazakhstan.html29
10mon
Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning to speak the expressive language of cows
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250204-the-linguists-studying-how-cows-talk-to-each-other-in-language24
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Missing link in Indo-European languages' history found
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-link-indo-european-languages-history.htmlThe title is a bit clickbaity but the article is interesting. Quick summary: ... read full post
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How similar are expressions and memes?
I'd like to begin by saying I'm no linguist. However, I've come to notice that memes and expressions are pretty similar. ... read full post
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(Bad linguistics) Language change is wrong, actually
https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_16_02_8_oneill.pdfFound this article in the longreads community arguing why "politically correct" terms shouldn't be used. You guys have any thoughts?
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How Much Does Our Language Shape Our Thinking?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/how-much-does-our-language-shape-our-thinking10
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A competition on word disambiguation
https://projects.sketchengine.eu/conll2025/index.cgiWe invite participants to benchmark systems for word sense induction (WSI) across multiple languages. Unlike traditional approaches, this task evaluates WSI without relying on predefined sense inventories, offering a more theoretically plausible framework for understanding word meanings. ... read full post
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Genetic evidence points towards the Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian hypotheses
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ancient-genomes-word-indo-european.htmlcross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/1499265 ... read full post
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How W. Labov used a bunny to examine children's language abilities
As W. Labov has passed away, I came across a comment reposting this screenshotted request, along with the paper in question: ... read full post
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William Labov has passed away
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399William Labov, known far and wide as one of the most influential linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries, passed away this morning at the age of 97, with his wife, Gillian Sankoff, by his side.
Bill is still very alive to us, so many of us, here at Penn. His voice reverberates. Mark is working on a longer, more detailed appreciation.
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The Names of All Manner of Hounds: 1065 names for dogs, from a fifteenth-century manuscript
https://imgur.com/gallery/names-of-all-manner-of-hounds-1065-names-dogs-from-fifteenth-century-manuscript-3JVAIHS52
12mon
Biden-Harris Administration Releases 10-Year National Plan on Native Language Revitalization | U.S. Department of the Interior
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-releases-10-year-national-plan-native-language22
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