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Photo: John Soars/Wikimedia Commons Discover Interview The Radical Linguist Noam Chomsky -- Discover For centuries experts held that every ...

Health: Teen Speaks To CBS3 About Her Ability To Instantly Say Words Backwards -- CBS PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – It’s like an easy game for 14-yea...

Carla Tarantino-Marie and her 2-year-old daughter Violette, reading together. Viorel Florescu for New York Daily News Every 2-Year-Old Shoul...

The Chimp They Tried To Turn Into A Human: An Extraordinary Experiment In Which Scientists Raised A Chimpanzee As Their Child... With Chilli...

The 'Lingodroids' Learning Language via IEEE Spectrum Robots Learn To CreateTheir Own Spoken Language -- Popular Science Having a co...

To Talk With Aliens, Learn to Speak With Dolphins -- Wired Science The Kepler Space Telescope announced a new bonanza of distant planets thi...

Researchers say early humans were limited by brain power not manual dexterity when making stone age tools. Photograph: David Sillitoe/Guardi...

A clay tablet known as the Jursa tablet that proves the existence of a Babylonian official in the Bible From The Daily Mail: The ancient lan...

Photo: A letter discovered in northern Peru in 2008 showing a column of numbers written in Spanish and translated into a language that scho...

The second OED was published in 1989 Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph: The next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s most...

Lost In Translation -- Wall Street Journal New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world;...

High resolution in vivo images of neurons and associated dendritic spines in the brain of a juvenile songbird during the initial stages of s...

Time to look around the paintings (Image: Dozier Marc/Photolibrary) From New Scientist: THE first intrepid explorers to brave the 7-metre cr...

Google Android From Popular Science: Google's vision for a better world involves removing those pesky language barriers that keep people...

From The BBC: The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has...

Geographic distribution of the 2,236 languages included in the present study. (Credit: Lupyan G, Dale R (2010), PLoS One, 10.1371/journal.po...

Human speech is thought to have emerged 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, some five million years after chimps and humans took divergent paths o...

Jennie Pyers signs with a young deaf boy in Nicaragua. Pyers studied bilingual sign language speakers to solve the "tip of the tongue...

Preaching to the converted: Li Yang, founder of the Crazy English movement, lectures a crowd of students. SEAN GALLAGHER Crazy English: How ...

From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Aug. 19, 2009) — With a vast majority of the world speaking more than one language, it is no wonder that p...