New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, diverged, and evolved.

Genetic researchers have combined data from existing archaeological and linguistic studies of Africa with human genetic data to shed light on the demographic history of the continent from which all ...

What happens to language when two populations come together? A new study in Science Advances has sought to answer that ...

An international team of linguists and geneticists has achieved a significant breakthrough in our understanding of the origins of Indo-European, a family of languages spoken by nearly half of the ...

Lecturer in Linguistics and Language Education, Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana If there is one most distinguishing feature that makes us human, it would be our ability to enunciate words, aka ...

In this handbook, Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber bring together methodological, theoretical, and empirical studies in the economics of language in a single framework of linguistic diversity that ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. This book is about the invention of ancient names and words. Virtually ...

A general model is proposed for language and dialect spreads and population movement in mountain societies. Languages (and societies) are vertically distributed and often discontinuous. Isoglosses and ...

This paper discusses the linguistic development of Genie, an adolescent girl who for most of her life underwent a degree of social isolation and experiential deprivation unparalleled in the reports of ...