When I was around eight years old, my mom attended a parent–teacher conference at my school. She was told I'd been making unusual comments about people's names on the playground. I said to one boy: ...

Three measuring instruments are used in this study of 12- and 15-year-old children's passive vocabulary, active vocabulary and lexical diversity. Children are drawn from samples delimited by two ...

Research in the past few decades has shown that Northern Bizkaian Basque possesses a pitch-accent system of the Tokyo Japanese type, with a contrast between lexically accented and unaccented words.

I've always found the the term "Latinx" irritating, and a new nationwide poll of Hispanic voters by Politico told me something I already knew: I'm not the only one from my community who does. The poll ...

BIOLOGISTS reckon that most species that have ever existed are extinct. That is true of words, too. Of the Oxford English Dictionary’s 231,000 entries, at least a fifth are obsolete. They range from ...

In a separate post, though, comes a surprising fact: the reading of fiction specifically is as important as reading generally. People who read "lots" and fiction "lots" outscore those who read "lots" ...