As the parent of two teenagers, being a linguist did not adequately prepare me for the strange things that sometimes come out of their mouths. For example, "like" is omnipresent, "hecka" punctuates ...

The study of language evolution and learning addresses the complex interplay between cultural dynamics and biological predispositions in shaping human communication. Researchers employ experimental ...

Zipf’s law, a striking statistical regularity in human language, posits that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank within a frequency-ordered list. This phenomenon, observed ...