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Linguistics

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The Dawn of Words: Did Language Emerge 135,000 Years Ago?

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
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The complicated question of how we determine who has an accent

Categories Technology
Sequences of consecutive breakpoint distances for “Gates of Paradise” and “Finnegans Wake” in the same scale.

Unveiling the Hidden Order in James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’ … Punctuation

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
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The Science Behind Legal Jargon: MIT Study Reveals Why Laws Are So Hard to Read

Categories Social Sciences
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Music: Song lyrics have become simpler and more repetitive since 1980

Categories Social Sciences
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How cognition changes before dementia hits

Categories Brain & Behavior
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How to spot fake news through journalists’ use of language

Categories Brain & Behavior, Social Sciences
A page from an 18th-century copy of the Dhātupāṭha of Pāṇini (MS Add.2351) held by Cambridge University Library

Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years

Categories Social Sciences
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The universal sound of swearing across languages

Categories Social Sciences

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