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An app that tries to guess your regional accent based on your pronunciation of 26 words and colloquialisms will help Cambridge academics track the...

A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people...

James Clackson's new book looks at what language use can tell us about ancient societies.

Research into a ‘playful’ and increasingly popular urban language that grew out of the necessity for criminals to hide their true intent could help...

Thriving economies are the biggest factor in the disappearance of minority languages and conservation should focus on the most developed countries...

In this article, Professor of Education Neil Mercer argues that ‘talk’ needs tuition; state schools must teach spoken language skills for the sake of...

In a groundbreaking new study, Cambridge researchers have mapped out the neurobiological basis of a key aspect of human communication: intonation.

Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to...