What is language, why do we use it, and how did it evolve? These are questions that language researchers are still working to answer. From a basic standpoint, a language is a shared system of symbols ...

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

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Some languages, like English, require a future tense, while others do not. Does that affect how speakers of those languages make decisions about the future?

They refuse to stop using their cherished language—despite incentives to do so—in order to preserve something of the associated culture. The death of languages often follows the same pattern.