A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, research appearing in the June 2022 issue of the journal Language, ...

An international team of linguistics experts has traced the origins of the most common modern sign languages using a computer model to compare them against one another. The research is published in ...

One of the most prominent theories about the origins of human language is that our ancestors started to communicate using ...

In summer 2022, a linguist mentioned the origin story of the Indo-European languages and how research in the field was racing ahead. I was intrigued because, in the last 10 years, we’ve been able to ...

I prefer to keep to what is actually understood about evolutionary biology and not indulge in what evolutionary biologists dismiss as 'just-so' stories... stories we invent... 'maybe it happened this ...

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