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Students wear Catalan independence flags and hand out ballots in front of the University of Barcelona. Hundreds have been camping out at the university nightly ahead of Sunday's independence vote.

For Catalonia's Separatists, Language Is The Key To Identity

Sep 29, 2017
Many separatists say their Catalan language is what makes them feel most different from the rest of Spain. The language was prohibited during years of dictatorship, but now it's ubiquitous in schools.
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Research Shows Spanish Speakers Take Longer To Learn English. Why?

Sep 15, 2017
A recent study emphasizes what researchers have noted for years: As children, Spanish-speaking English learners take longer to become proficient than nearly any other group. Here are theories why.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
President Donald Trump gives a speech aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford at its commissioning at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., on July 22.

What Should We Make Of Trump's Speech Patterns — And Our Responses To Them?

Sep 14, 2017
Yes, President Trump's words tend to be simple and oft-repeated. The real question, says anthropologist Barbara J. King, may be what happens when we adopt them.
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Shots - Health News

What Are The Planet's Real 'Talking' Chimps And Gorillas Saying?

Jul 25, 2017
Movies are full of loquacious chimps, but could nonhuman apes really use language? NPR's Skunk Bear sorts through the disturbing history of research on ape language to sort fact from wishful thinking.
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Shots - Health News
Research analyst Allison Aaron and Assistant Professor Reyna Gordon are studying how music and rhythm training could help children who struggle with language development. Their work is part of Vanderbilt's Program for Music, Mind and Society.

Using Music And Rhythm To Help Kids With Grammar And Language

Jun 01, 2017
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are studying how music and rhythm activities could help children who struggle with grammar and language development.
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Shots - Health News
Ilongot men rest in the shade after building a house. Renato and Shelly lived in the home of the man on the left for a year.

Invisibilia: A Man Finds An Explosive Emotion Locked In A Word

Jun 01, 2017
When anthropologist Renato Rosaldo went to live with a Philippine tribe that was known for beheading people, he couldn't grasp the emotion that fueled this violence. Then his wife suddenly died.
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All Tech Considered
Dogspotting keeps its users from getting political. In this post, the black and white dog shown is said to be at a Planned Parenthood rally, but not stating any political allegiance.

Dogs Are Doggos: An Internet Language Built Around Love For The Puppers

Apr 23, 2017
DoggoLingo is a rising language on the Internet that's full of cutesy suffixes and onomatopoeias. It might even change the way you talk to your pet.
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Author Interviews
A galley proof shows some of the work that went into adding "ginormous" to Merriam-Webster's 2007 collegiate dictionary.

From 'F-Bomb' To 'Photobomb,' How The Dictionary Keeps Up With English

Apr 19, 2017
For a new word to enter the dictionary, it must meet three criteria: widespread use, sustained use and meaningful use. Merriam-Webster lexicographer Kory Stamper explains the process in Word by Word.
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The Two-Way
The Gotham of the "grammar vigilante": Bristol, U.K.

The 'Grammar Vigilante': Defender Of Truth, Justice And The Grammarian Way

Apr 03, 2017
Wielding his handy "apostrophiser," this "Banksy of punctuation" stalks the streets of Bristol at night, reclaiming the British city's street signs for good — one corrected apostrophe at a time.
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The Two-Way
The little mark at the heart of it all.

The Oxford Comma: Great For Listing, Pontificating, And Winning Court Cases

Mar 16, 2017
An appeals court dispute between a Maine dairy company and its delivery drivers came down to a single punctuation mark — or rather, the lack of it. Count it a win for the controversial comma.
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Shots - Health News
The name hippocampus comes from the Greek word for seahorse. It's a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory.

The Seahorse In Your Brain: Where Body Parts Got Their Names

Dec 16, 2016
What are those dog ears doing on my heart? Ancient anatomists named body parts after things they resembled in real life. So you've got a rooster comb in your skull and a flute in your leg.
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Politics
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listen as he speaks during a campaign rally in October in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Trump Supporters to Detractors: 'Pull Up Your Panties' And Stop Whining

Dec 10, 2016
Despite skepticism of Trump — and losing the popular vote — his supporters say it's time to move on and trust the president-elect to figure things out. They're willing to give him a very long leash.
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Commentary
Linguist Geoff Nunberg argues that the media's decision to bleep or otherwise block out a particular word can result in concealing information the public needs to know.

Not Fit To Print? When Politicians Talk Dirty, Media Scramble To Sanitize

Oct 25, 2016
Donald Trump isn't the first politician to use coarse language, but linguist Geoff Nunberg says the 2005 Access Hollywood tape of him discussing women's genitalia wasn't like other live-mic incidents.
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A leaked video showed Donald Trump (pictured with 'Days of Our Lives' actress Arianne Zucker and then-Access Hollywood co-host Billy Bush) bragging about groping women.

Calling Trump's Bragging What It Is; Election Coverage: Sept. 25 – Oct. 8

Oct 14, 2016
What language should NPR have used to describe Donald Trump's comments in the leaked Access Hollywood video?
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Shots - Health News
Earlier studies have found that children who grow up in houses with a TV on many hours a day learn fewer words than children in households with less TV time.

Turning Down The Background Noise Could Help Toddlers Learn

Jul 21, 2016
Being surrounded by noisy conversations, radio or TV can make it harder for toddlers to learn new words, researchers say. Quieter conversations didn't affect the learning process.
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Shots - Health News
MRI scans suggests words stimulate different regions of the brain depending on their meaning.

Scans Show 'Brain Dictionary' Groups Words By Meaning

Apr 27, 2016
Brain maps constructed by MRI show that language meaning is distributed throughout the brain's outer layer. And it turns out that different people organize language in similar ways.
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The Two-Way
A trip to Iceland wouldn't be complete without a dip in the Blue Lagoon, a man-made geothermal pool on Reykjanes peninsula.

#NPRreads: 3 Stories To Soak Up This Weekend

Apr 23, 2016
The premise of #NPRreads is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading and each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.
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The Two-Way
The armed individuals occupying part of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon include Ryan Bundy. On Thursday, he had a gun and a tape measure on his side. Bundy is the son of Cliven Bundy, whose 2014 armed standoff with the federal Bureau of La

Those Men In Oregon: Troublemakers, Terrorists Or Something Else?

Jan 09, 2016
Fans and foes want the news media to label the armed individuals who are occupying part of a national wildlife refuge. NPR is trying to describe, rather than characterize. Here's our thinking.
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All Tech Considered
IBM's Watson analyzes a Twitter account of an unnamed user, breaking down needs, values and five personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, neuroticism (aka emotional range).

I Asked A Computer To Be My Life Coach

Dec 22, 2015
Your online habits leave a constant digital trail. What does it say about the real you? I gave the world's most famous computer keys to my online life to see what it could tell me, about me.
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The Two-Way
On Wednesday in Yangon, Myanmar, two police officers read about the elections that saw opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party win a majority of seats in parliament.

Myanmar Is Also Known As Burma, But We Won't Keep Repeating That

Nov 14, 2015
For years, it's been NPR's style to say that Myanmar is "also known as Burma" at the start of reports about that nation. We don't think that's necessary anymore.
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Shots - Health News
A vowel sound like "e" can still sound clear through the dense vegetation in Hawaii.

Did The Language You Speak Evolve Because Of The Heat?

Nov 06, 2015
People speak very differently depending on where they live, and the climate and environment might have something to do with that. Crisp English consonants don't carry well in the rain forest.
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Shots - Health News
Before becoming an interpreter at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, Calif., Brigida Gonzalez (right) worked in the strawberry fields.

Hospitals Struggle To Help Farmworkers Who Speak Triqui Or Mixteco

Sep 29, 2015
One-third of farmworkers in California speak indigenous languages from southern Mexico. Many don't speak Spanish or English, a situation that poses challenges for health care providers.
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The Two-Way
Essentials are necessary. Replicas are exact. An exodus is a mass movement of people. These are just a few of the many pleonasms heard and written each day.

Please Don't Have A Temper Tantrum About The Pleonasm In This Headline

Sep 19, 2015
Does it grate on your ears if you're offered a "free gift?" Would you have a "sudden impulse" to correct that grammar? Pleonasms have unnecessary, superfluous words. Tell us about the ones you hear.
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The Two-Way

3 Things To Know About NPR's Policy Regarding Offensive Language

Jul 25, 2015
There are times when obscene words are heard, but they are rare. Editors balance respect for listeners against the news value of the language.
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Goats and Soda
Maria Nieves Nashnato Upari and Jose Manuel Huaymacari Tamani are teaching Kukama to children in hopes of keeping their "maternal language" alive.

To Resurrect A Vanishing Language, Try YouTube and Indiegogo

Jul 11, 2015
A community in the Amazon tries to save its disappearing language with classes for kids, a rap video, radio broadcasts and an online fundraiser.

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