Lexical stress plays a pivotal role in language processing by influencing how words are segmented, recognised, and accessed in the mental lexicon. Variations in stress patterns, realised through ...

Recent studies have highlighted divergent change as a more common outcome of language contact than previously thought. While convergent change is often attributed to bilingual cognitive pressures, ...

The current study examined lexical aspects of second language (L2) speech attainment in the foreign language (FL) classroom setting (i.e., several hours of target language input per week). A total of ...

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language attrition, or “language loss,” among bi- and multilingual speakers. Now, it’s ...

According to research, AI buzzwords that frequently appear in ChatGPT-generated material are now appearing more frequently in ...

Learn how writers enrich a language's expressive power, and why a language's vitality depends on creativity, not a dictionary's size.

New research shows large language models are seeding buzzwords into everyday speech. TikTok gave us slang like rizz, while X popularized ratio and doomscroll. But according to new research from ...

This November sees veteran Young Adult author Mal Peet having something of a renewal with his first novel for adults, The Murdstone Trilogy. As well as being his first book for adults, it’s also his ...