The power of language lies in its ability to define human habits and values in a single word, and “abstemious” is indeed an ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Shane O'Neill of The Washington Post about the word "aesthetic" and its evolution from art criticism and design theory to online speak and the White House. So yesterday, ...

In an age of polarized debates and dug-in opinions, obdurate feels more relevant than ever. It’s the word that captures our cultural stalemates: firm, unmovable, sometimes admirable and often ...

Scalar implicatures (SIs) and negative strengthening (NS) are two central pragmatic inferences licensed by adjectives. SIs arise when the use of a weaker term (e.g., content) implies that its stronger ...

Our research contributes to debates about the role of Universal Grammar constraints and crosslinguistic influence in sequential bilingual acquisition and use. We investigate experimentally how adult ...

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Ever wonder what popular slang terms mean? We define some for Gen Z and Gen A. Definitions included range from sus, bussin, no cap, bet, mid and more. What are the kids even saying these days? It can ...

The names of all three of these folks have gotten the adjective treatment. | Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images (QEI), traveler1116/DigitalVision Vectors ...

On Wednesday, we launched a new way for us to answer your questions. Our Explain It to Me franchise will include a weekly podcast, weekly newsletter, and regular videos that all focus on what our ...

Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding an “Audio Overview” feature. Audio Overview will give users another way to digest and comprehend the ...