LANGUAGE

Some languages lack what we might consider the most fundamental words—yet somehow manage to get by without them.

A study found that adult zebra finches speak differently to baby birds than they do to one another, and that their repetitive language seemed to help the young birds learn to sing.

Clarisa Vollmar is not quite one year old but already has a worldwide Facebook following of more than 30,000 fans.

Let's raise the curtain on 'barnstorming,' 'catastrophe,' and other terms that have their origins in the theater.

The plaintiffs in this case should have known better than to mess with the Klingons.

Soon you'll be to ready to vasterat with Khaleesi, Khal Moro, and the rest of the horselord gang.

People, even as babies, are good at pulling out grammatical structure from patterned data.

A Smoot—which equals 5 feet, 7 inches—isn't the only really precise unit of measurement out there.

Did you know it used to be cloud seven instead of cloud nine? Here are six other everyday phrases that used to be very different.

Turns out this expression of unbridled hedonism isn't so modern after all.

We experience the world through our senses, so it makes sense that our language should reflect those senses. This group of words traces back to the basic elements of taste: sour, bitter, sweet, and salty.

Hanging on to your high school or college Spanish—or French, or German, etc—is a challenge once you're no longer enrolled in classes.