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The Dolch List consists of 220 high-frequency "sight words" that comprise up to 75% of all juvenile reading material. This…
In 1894, one man embarked on a seemingly impossible quest: to map every language on the Indian subcontinent. Discover the…
What if you could record every moment of your child's life to understand how they learn to talk? MIT researcher…
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Go inside your smart speaker and discover how it turns sound into text through the lens of linguistics. Explore the…
Forget the weathered notebook and tape recorder. Modern linguists are deploying a high-tech toolkit to document endangered languages, using portable…
Imagine being the first outsider to document a language with no written form. How would you create its first-ever dictionary?…
How different are two dialects, really? Linguists can now answer that question with surprising precision. Discover the methods used to…
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