For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand current views of the Spanish language among U.S. Hispanics, including views related to Hispanic identity, joking about Hispanics ...