11-09-03 The vocabulary of babies who are bilingual remains flexible as they grow up and boosts their speaking ability as toddlers, a university study has found. 一项大学研究发现，接受双语教育的宝宝在成长过程中可以灵活地掌握两门语言的词汇，而且学步时期的口语...

11-08-31 New research from MIT suggests that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language, a finding that marks a major advance in the search for brain regions specialized for sophisticated mental functions. Functional specificity, as...

11-07-13 Computers are great at treating words as data: Word-processing programs let you rearrange and format text however you like, and search engines can quickly find a word anywhere on the Web. But what would it mean for a computer to actually understand...

11-03-28 网络上常用的缩略语LOL（放声大笑）和OMG（我的天）近日被收录到牛津英语词典中，同时收录其中的还有表达爱心的符号。 The Oxford English Dictionary, will now include and LOL as real words worthy of etymological recording. The stalwart（坚定的，健壮的） bas...

11-03-22 A mother mouse was out for a stroll（漫步，闲逛） with her babies when she spotted a cat crouched（蹲伏，蜷缩） behind a bush. She watched the cat, and the cat watched the mice. Mother mouse barked fiercely, Woof, woof, woof! The cat was so terrifie...

11-02-25 Why, and when, do we learn to speak the way that we do? Research from North Carolina State University on African-American children presents an unexpected finding: language use can go on a roller-coaster（翻滚过山车） ride during childhood as kids ad...

11-01-10 Microbloggers may think they're interacting in one big Twitterverse, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science find that regional slang and dialects are as evident in tweets as they are in everyday conversations. Pos...

10-11-03 A pre-school language intervention programme can significantly improve the educational lives of children with poorly developed speech and language skills, according to new research by psychologists（心理学家） at the University of York. In the Langu...

10-10-06 Researchers have identified a language new to science in a remote region of India. 研究人员在印度某偏远地区发现了一种科学上没有记载的新语言。 The newly recognised language is spoken by between 800 and 1,200 people in north-east India Known as Koro,...

10-09-11 拥有115年悠久历史的牛津词典本月推出了新版《牛津英汉－汉英词典》，其中收录了山寨、房奴等近年来流行的中文词汇。据介绍，为了编纂这本新发行的中英文词典，中英两国的出版社共计60名编辑人员花费了近5年的时间。 The 115-year-old prestigious（有名望的） Oxford...