How did language begin? Words don't leave artifacts behind — writing began long after language did — so theories of language origins have generally been based on hunches. For centuries there had been ...

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 ...

Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we don’t learn lists of words like we might in a school language class. We learn longer strings of sounds and break them up ...