Remember "COVIDiots" and the first protests by "anti-vaxxers"? The early stages of the pandemic saw plenty of new words enter the public "voice," but many of these novel terms were actually fairly ...

To avoid widespread school readiness gaps, experts say teachers and parents need to give children born since the pandemic an immediate language infusion. Already, studies find a third of children who ...

Human language is key to our understanding of the world, and an essential window into cognitive and neurological processes. Using the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment, a recent study ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

The momentum brought to Cornish learning during the pandemic needs to be used as a springboard to encourage more people to take up the language, an expert has said. Online courses and materials ...

Even before the pandemic, it was a race against time to preserve Native American languages across the country. COVID-19 has accelerated this. The Cherokee Nation has had more than 30 of its 2,000 ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On April 4, Licho, one of the four last ...