As parent, advocates and teacher, we understand the importance of social communication skills for our students. Pragmatic language is a crucial aspect of communication that involves the use of ...

The Aurora DSQL dialect for Hibernate provides integration between Hibernate ORM and Aurora DSQL. This dialect enables Java applications to leverage Hibernate's powerful object-relational mapping ...

Idioms are an often invisible barrier to understanding and inclusion for second-language speakers because their meanings rely ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Now that we've unpacked some iconic tagline examples, let's take a second to savour what makes them so deliciously effective at sticking around. Have you ever heard those slogans that never seem to ...

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s ...

There are certain things that knex cannot do without knowing what to expect of the database schema it is interacting with. The most obvious example comes from sqlite, which doesn't have DATETIME ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Over the past two decades, Taylor ...

Macedonia, OH native Brandon Saraniti grew up thinking he didn’t have an accent. But that all changed back in 2018, when he moved to Washington, D.C. for college. He was at a party and struck up a ...