What would a person in Revolutionary America sound like? Early letters, documents, and diaries help us listen in.

By feeding centuries-old nursery rhymes and folklore recordings into their own model, linguists in Louisiana hope to help a ...

There has never been agreement over the meaning of America’s creation 250 years ago. Maybe there shouldn’t be.

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In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.