There has been a lot of research to back up the idea that people who use two or more languages everyday experience significant advantages. The brain training involved in having to use a different ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) Fiona Seah, Melissa Goh and Cherie Lim from NTU hope the My Father Tongue campaign will spur interest among younger ...

The way you talk says something about where you were raised. Turns out, the same appears to be true for bats. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus ...

Linguists are always taken aback by the overwhelmingly negative and sometimes virulently expressed reaction they get when stating something that every linguist believes (and linguists do not agree on ...

If you need to hit a nail, what tool do you ask for? If you say "hammer," do you pronounce the "r"? Do you drop the "h"? Different people pronounce the same English words in different ways. People ...

Financial support for the Dialect and Heritage Project has come from National Lottery Heritage Fund (£530,500), the University of Leeds’ Footsteps Fund and alumni donations (£110,000), and partner ...

Lead author says there are many differences between Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic, which is used in official circumstances.

New media such as smartphone apps are preserving China's local vernaculars, which are otherwise falling into disuse among the younger generation Computer codes are deciphering a lifeline for China's ...