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@mander.xyzhttps://phys.org/news/2024-07-common-english-words-dont-boy.html
The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors. We can reconstruct the stages of this process through etymology, which studies the historical development of the lexicon of a language.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/05/babbling-scouse-youngster-shows-babies-can-have-accents-say-scientists
Newborns are tuned in to the ups and downs of speech, and even a cry mimics language heard while in the womb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHW-1ASyFLs
Today, we will be exploring whether there was ever a North African Romance language, spoken in the former Ancient Roman colonies of the Maghreb. Social Media...
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2500-year-old-slate-containing-drawings-of-battle-scenes-and-paleo-alphabet-discovered-in-spain
Archaeologists discovered the stone tablet at a Tartessian site in southwestern Spain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/magazine/native-language-loss.html
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYMCy8gEhog
Umberto Eco, author of The Name of the Rose, speaks about his latest book, Baudolino.
https://neurosciencenews.com/language-adjectives-neuroscience-26207/
Researchers found that negating adjectives with "not" affects how our brains interpret their meaning, mitigating rather than inverting their definition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ME_vcqWeJs
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