I was talking to a friend about plans for her pre-schooler. Their home language is English, but my friend’s father is French, and I wondered if she was enrolling her child in the local French ...

Language is estimated to have emerged in humans between 100,000 and 1,000,000 years ago 1. The functions of language and the causal drivers in its origins have long been fiercely debated across ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...