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Words reflecting anger and swearing are more common in people with personality dysfunction.
Your hands aren’t just accessories to your words. They’re one of the most powerful tools you have to make your ideas resonate.
The neck’s vitality and vulnerability are rooted in a quirky evolutionary history.
Around half of toddlers who aren’t chattering by age two will catch up later, but we can’t predict which ones.
We often imitate styles of speech we hear – what’s known as ‘linguistic convergence.’ But a researcher wanted to see if we alter our speech based on the mere expectation of how someone will sound.
Though it was exceedingly grating, the late comedian was able to perfect a sound that worked in tandem with his brand of humor.
Recent research on Danish shows that not only is it hard for Danish children to learn their mother tongue, but adult Danes use their native language differently than speakers of other languages.
How members of America’s two parties view the country – and its place in the world – might explain this phenomenon.
Armstrong always insisted that he said, ‘That’s one small step for a man.’ Yet everyone omits the ‘a’ when they repeat the quote. A linguist tries to get to the bottom of what happened.
In the space of a few short years, deaf Nicaraguan school children created their own language. This example may give us a clue about how spoken language developed over thousands of years.
We humans are capable of vocalising many different words in a range of languages. But what is it that gives us a remakable and variable voice?
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Southern California
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Leading Education Professional, UNSW
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Lecturer, Speech Pathology, Edith Cowan University
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Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Catedrática de Lengua Española. Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona
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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science of Language, Aarhus University
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Linguistics, University of Oregon
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