Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

Of course, language is not necessary to combine concepts—the psychologist Karen Wynn, for instance, has shown that pre-linguistic human infants, already perform ruidmentary mental arithmetic, and can ...

A group of neuroscientists argue that our words are primarily for communicating, not for reasoning. By Carl Zimmer For thousands of years, philosophers have argued about the purpose of language. Plato ...

Speculation on the evolutionary basis of language remained off-limits for over a century. But, by the 1970s, scientists began to again speculate on the origin of language. Today, the scientific ...

First and foremost, let’s talk benefits: learning a new language can change your life in more ways than one. It’s pretty common knowledge that you look more attractive to employers if you’re bilingual ...