Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to make English the national language of the United States. The order ...

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Does knowing a language mean knowing a lot of words, or how to speak it properly? The answer largely depends on your goals.

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I did it in English, his native language, the language we’d bonded through — my second language. While writing about him, I embraced English to convey some sense of meaning, of hope.