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Linguistics

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

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The complicated question of how we determine who has an accent

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

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The Science Behind Legal Jargon: MIT Study Reveals Why Laws Are So Hard to Read

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

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How cognition changes before dementia hits

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How to spot fake news through journalists’ use of language

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Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years

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The universal sound of swearing across languages

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