In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Joshua Plotkin, a biology professor at the University of ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

The “67” meme is practically everywhere these days. You’ll hear kids chanting it at games and TikTok clips looping it nonstop, as well as a few brands using it to promote their products. No wonder so ...

KCRW Reports California accents are way more complex than you think A project called Los Angeles Speaks is looking at how language evolves and affects communities, including neighborhoods impacted by ...