As far back as George Bernard Shaw’s fictional professor Henry Higgins, language experts have argued that low-income students who learn to switch from speaking a dialect to using standard English have ...

Conditions in rural England around the turn of the 20th century offer a case study for cultural evolution researchers. Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty Images If you need to hit a nail, what ...

There is solid evidence (see this and this), that bilinguals exhibit different personality traits in different languages. However, it is much more accurate to note that it’s not language that makes ...

English spelling is crazy. Even people born and raised in English-speaking societies who speak no other language still often have a lot of trouble with English spelling. You may think that English is ...

SHELLY: ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER MARISSA ARMAS AND PHOTOJOURNALIST JALYN TRESVANT TELL US. THAT MEANS LONGER COURT HEARINGS REPORTER: QUICHE, IXIL, MIXTECO, TZOTZIL, AND THE LIST GOES ON. >> THERE’S ...