linguistics

Why Russian is harder to learn than English.
Joel Shurkin, Contributor
What happens when the last person to speak a language dies?
Joel Shurkin, Contributor
Comparing Native American and Siberian languages suggests a 10,000-year stopover.
Ker Than, Contributor
Owls react to alarm calls from prairie dogs.
Cat Ferguson, Contributor
Successful books have stylistic similarities, researchers found.
Joel Shurkin, Contributor
Meanings behind whale, dolphin, and bird vocabularies remain opaque.
Amanda Alvarez, Contributor
Scientific techniques show promise for future linguistics research.
Mike Lucibella, Contributor