Is your all-important essay being graded by a human, or a computer?
Automated essay scoring is now a reality, but not everyone likes the idea of an unthinking robot evaluating their essays. How do these programs work? And can you …
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Downton Abbey has enchanted millions of television viewers with the goings-on of the fictional Crawley family of the 1910s and 20s.
But some of the language they use is decidedly post-post-Edwardian, and language fans are having fun turning up words …
Legendary linguist John Gumperz passed away recently, and leaves behind a body of work that changed linguistic study as we know it.
Gumperz was a pioneer of the burgeoning field of interactional sociolinguistics, and it explains how we understand each …
Are there any words you really hate?
Word aversion may not be an actual condition, but there’s no shortage of words that make people’s toes curl. What are the most hated words in English? Do speakers of other languages feel …
Why do we guffaw or weep, chortle or bawl?
Laughter and tears don’t just show emotion; they’re forms of communication. And these signs of joy or grief may have developed along with our capacity for empathy and a …
There’s a new way to learn a language on the Internet for free.
It’s called Duolingo. You learn by translating sentences. And as you learn, you and millions of other users will participate in translating documents on the web. It’s …
There’s a lot of language out there on the Internet.
But how does the volume of language on Twitter, web pages, and the rest of the Internet compare with the amount of face-to-face conversation?
Computational linguist Robert Munro has taken …
The Brahmin of Kerala in Southern India are renowned for their ritual of chanting.
Parts of their chants are not in any human language, and yet they still appear to show patterns. But it’s also been claimed that these chants …
Could language have evolved from birdsong?
A new paper suggests that human language shares features with both the tweeting of our feathered friends, and the buzzing of bees. How might early humans have combined them to make language?
Linguist Daniel …
Children learn language pretty fast.
But a new study shows that babies who are even a few hours old can tell the difference between their mother tongue and other languages. How do they do it?
Linguist Daniel Midgley gets in …
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