Most scientists think language emerged in stages, as our ancestors evolved the necessary adaptations for speech.Credit: Sergey Uryadnikov/shutterstock Humans have language and other animals don’t.

For decades, scholars believed children’s speech errors were the seeds of language change, but new research challenges that ...

So random, and yet so normal. Letters tend to generate expressions. “OK” started in Jacksonian America with a jolly ...

A new study shows that genetic evidence of historical contact between populations reveals consistent patterns of language change.

For more than a century, scholars have repeated a powerful idea: that the mistakes children make when learning to speak are ...

Coptic represents the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language, evolving from hieroglyphs and demotic into a form written ...

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 ...

For decades, journalists have worked to separate the language in news stories about abortion from the political rhetoric used by those fighting to criminalize or decriminalize the medical procedure.