Linguistics Study Claims That Languages Are Louder in the Tropics
researchers has just published "Demonstrating environmental impacts on the sound structure of languages: challenges and solutions" in Frontiers in Psychology .
Savannah Peat • Speech and Sun: New Research on Climate and How We Speak
In December of 2022, British contemporary artist Es Devlin installed a public sculpture in concert with the Endangered Language Alliance, “Your Voices,” outside of New York’s Lincoln Center. The work responds to anthropologist Wade Davis’s observation: “Every language is an old growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an entire ecosystem ... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
The model used recordings made before the winterers left to simulate what might happen to their accents as they spent time together. Their prediction was unerringly accurate, even if it did exaggerate the effects compared to what happened in real life. The winterers themselves wouldn't have noticed either as they happened over time. But when the so
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