An error has occurred. Please try again. With a Lewiston Sun Journal subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active ...

The origins of human language remain mysterious. Are we the only animals truly capable of complex speech? Are Homo sapiens the only hominids who could give detailed directions to a far-off freshwater ...

On March 1 of this year, a new executive order declared English the official language of the United States. The order proclaimed that “it is in America’s best interest for the Federal Government to ...

Humans are the only species known to use fully symbolic language: a system capable of expressing abstract ideas, imaginary ...

For the past decade, one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, square mile after square mile, has been my home: Queens, New York. The soundtrack outside my door is extraordinary: On ...