Many languages recycle words, giving them different meanings. For example, in English, "run" can mean to move quickly but ...

When English speakers say "rose" and Chinese speakers say "玫瑰," do they mean the same thing? A Peking University team led by ...

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at ...

Language plays an increasingly important role in search. Revealing the similarities and differences between languages through network science might seem daunting, but researchers at the Tokyo ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have uncovered a fundamental principle underlying how the human brain processes ...

There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us about our history, our cognitive ...

Adrianne Gomez co-founded Global Voices LLC, alongside her husband, Jonathan Gomez, in 2025, with a mission to connect ...

This is important original research that exposes a neglected obstacle to a free and unified Korea. Unification will not be secured by law, diplomacy, or military power alone. It will also depend on ...

At every group lunch I had with my peers, I learned a new word. Learning languages was like a gateway to new cultures; it ...