Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Before established sign languages, how did deaf children in isolation communicate? This post explores "home sign," the remarkable gestural systems they invent from scratch. Discover how these personal languages reveal…
In 1958, a fictional bird called a "wug" helped solve one of the biggest mysteries of the human mind: how children learn language. The groundbreaking "Wug Test" revealed that kids…
Deep in the Amazon, linguist Daniel Everett encountered a language that seemed to break all the rules. His claim that Pirahã lacks recursion—a feature once thought to be the bedrock…