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What Young Kids Think About English Accents — And Why It Matters

By Addison Fisher
March 02, 2026 02:02 PM
Several professors look at how children between the ages of five and nine judged speakers of three English varieties to see how kids form opinions about people based only on how they sound.
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What's the Hardest Part of Learning English? Students and Teachers Don't Always Agree

By Addison Fisher
February 02, 2026 03:26 PM
Learning a new language is tough—but what parts are actually the hardest? a study by Hartshorn, McMurry, and Rich looked into this question by asking both English learners and their teachers to rate the difficulty of seven different language skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
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Exploring How Language Lights Up the Brain: A Study of Pastaza Kichwa Ideophones

By Addison Fisher
December 19, 2025 12:01 PM
In the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, researchers Dan P. Dewey, Jeffrey J. Green, Janis Nuckolls, Auna Nygarrd, and Tod D. Swanson set out to explore a fascinating question: Can words alone—without any extra explanation—trigger sensory experiences in the brain?
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From Chaos to Clarity—Untangling Voices to Evaluate Audio Separation

By Addison Fisher
October 09, 2025 11:07 AM
Imagine you're playing a board game—let's say Codenames. As one team is guessing which tiles belong to their team, players on the other team engage in small side conversations. Amidst all the many conversations happening around you, you suddenly wonder: is there a way to separate all those overlapping voices so you can clearly hear each conversation?
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Exploring the Explanatory Power of Semitic and Egyptian in Uto-Aztecan

Stubbs, Brian D
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition

Merriam-Webster
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The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

Zsiga, Elizabeth C
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The Study of Language, 8th edition

Yule, George
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Projects in Linguistics: A practical guide to researching language, 2nd edition

Wray, Alison
Bloomer, Aileen
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English Meaning and Culture

Wirzbicka, Anna
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th edition

Wardhaugh, Ronald
Fuller, Janet M
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An Historical Syntax of the English Language, book 3

Visser, F Th
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An Historical Syntax of the English Language, book 2

Visser, F Th
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An Historical Syntax of the English Language, book 1

Visser, F Th
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Raising Silent Voices: Educating the Linguistic Minorities for the 21st Century

Trueba, Henry T
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Understanding Syntax, 5th edition

Tallerman, Maggie
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English Phonetics and Phonology: A Practical Course, 4th edition

Roach, Peter
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Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics

Richards, Jack
Platt, John
Weber, Heidi
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