Strange Languages Convey More Than Mere Words
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The theatrical vision of "K. I. From 'Crime,' " performed in Russian by the Foundry Theater on west 37th Street, turns a foreign language into a form of music.
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Children's brains are hard-wired to learn languages and, in some cases, to improve upon them. That's the conclusion of a new study that followed several generations of deaf Nicaraguan children as they created their own sign language and then continuously tinkered it with each new group of signers.
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David Crystal explores the development of the English language, shining a nonjudgmental light on alternative forms and newer variants.
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By S.E. Ruckman, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 12--Language is sort of like Play-Doh. It can be molded to fit the needs of those using it.   An anthropologist friend recently encouraged me to think of spoken American Indian languages that way.
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Coincidence or foresight? A mysteriously prescient note about a wrestlerâs wifeâs death highlights the predictive possibilities of the internet.
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Why do some words evolve rapidly, while others hardly evolve at all?
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number of false assumptions and that they have multiple meanings which even their author may not have understood. It is heralded as showing the multiple layers of meaning at work in language, but was described by critics as nihilistic.
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Scientists believe they may have   finally identified the part of the brain that deals with the   critical issue of matching words to everyday objects.
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Voxonic's proprietary method can translate lyrics into nearly 1,500 languages.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections went on show on Thursday.
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Trying to decode the subtle cues that lead to human rapport, scientists have trained their focus on mimicry.
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A spectator with an especially intimate view of human evolution is beginning to tell its story and has so far divulged two quite unexpected findings.
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New findings on how people make sounds could lead to better speech recognition and synthesis.
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SAN DIEGO&nbsp;-- Strange objects in faraway space known to astronomers only as Giant Galactic Blobs have, upon close inspection, become a lot&nbsp;weirder.
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Of pimps, government officials and what makes a translator laugh.
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An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.