Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other collaborating institutions have identified ancient fossils of a newly ...

Peggy Mohan, a professor of linguistics and the author of several books, spoke with Outlook's Avantika Mehta about the ...

This date serves as a “lower boundary” for when language capacity must have emerged. But since Homo sapiens is at least ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

For decades, scientists believed that acoustic communication evolved separately in different groups of vertebrates. Variations in hearing structures and vocal tract morphology supported this idea, ...

This discussion explores how companies make sustainability claims and the challenges in distinguishing genuine efforts from marketing tactics.

View the tentative list of planting locations for the upcoming planting season. Plant a tree on your own If you want to plant a tree on your own in front of your property, you'll need a tree planting ...

Linguistics students build a strong foundation for careers in hearing, speech, and language sciences, bilingual education, translation and interpretation, forensic studies, cognitive science, ...