Why Do British People Sound So Smart?
A recent study conducted by Rutgers University reveals that British and American English speakers use the word “right” differently in their daily conversations. Are the…
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Songs of Indri – The “Singing Primates” From Madagascar – Feature “Uniquely Human” Rhythms
Songbirds share the human sense of rhythm, but it is a rare trait in non-human mammals. An international research team led by senior investigators Marco…
MIT Literature Professor Takes a New Look at Ancient Books
Classicist Stephanie Frampton traverses disciplines to study how the content and form of writing interacted in the ancient world. At one point in Ovid’s “Tristia,”…
Old World Monkeys Vocalizations May Be More Sophisticated Than Previously Realized
Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans. The utterances of Old World monkeys, some…
New Study Links Ancient Cave Art Drawings and the Emergence of Language
When and where did humans develop language? To find out, look deep inside caves, suggests an MIT professor. More precisely, some specific features of cave…
Disease Mapping Methods Indicate That Indo-European Languages Originated From Anatolia
Diverse languages, from English to Hindi, can trace their roots back 8,000 years to Anatolia (Asia Minor), a region that’s centered around modern-day Turkey. The…
Linguistics Research May Improve Future Internet Search Engines
By translating ten different English texts into various codes, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems found a long-range correlation…
