Words in the English language are structured to help children learn, according to research. Words like "woof" accurately represent the sound of a dog while sounds with similar meanings may have a ...

A centerpiece of the study of linguistics has been that the words we use are arbitrarily related to the concepts they refer to. To some degree, this is true. If you look across languages, the same ...

A centerpiece of the study of linguistics has been that the words we use are arbitrarily related to the concepts they refer to. To some degree, this is true. If you look across languages, the same ...