A new dialect has been emerging from certain parts of Miami due to cultural intermingling between Spanish and English speakers. The distinct dialect is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English, born ...

The present study examines the production outcomes of late second language (L2) learners in order to determine if the mechanisms that allow the creation of phonetic categories remains available during ...

Learn how experience teaches the brain to distinguish between the words in languages over time.

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

Sometimes they describe an attribute. Or a moment. Or maybe just a vibe. These are the words from other languages that don't have a direct equivalent in English, and yet carry so much meaning. The ...

Scientists have thought that when we hear language, the brain processes it the same way, whether it's familiar or foreign. A ...

A rumor that has circulated online since November 2024 claims that a man from New Zealand, Nigel Richards, won a Spanish-language Scrabble championship without even speaking the language. Richards ...