The Humanities Institute (THI) at UC Santa Cruz has been developing a community-engaged research project to create an ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry explains fake languages, ...

Language learners often assume that using rare, complex vocabulary will make their speech sound more fluent. Research ...

Fluency in a foreign language is often thought to be about speaking quickly and using advanced vocabulary. However, researchers reveal that speakers who use common, everyday expressions sound more ...

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first contact and also hint at the point of language itself ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

The Tennessee state legislature's one-time transfer bill aimed at the TSSAA passed through its second committee Wednesday.

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Fletcher Previn says IT departments should focus on experiences that touch all employees and show how the company values them ...

The International Student Program is happy to help you with any concerns that you are facing, including stress and mental health issues. Many international students experience difficulties during ...

In Reality Blues, Meaghan Garvey tries to find out what is real, song by song. This week, she talks with the London-based ...