An estimated 90% of the training data for current generative AI systems stems from English. However, English is an international lingua franca with about 1.5 billion speakers worldwide, and countless ...

The study of World Englishes examines how English adapts, diversifies and stabilises across varied sociocultural and geographic contexts. Moving beyond traditional norms of British and American usage, ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...

Linguistic diversity, sustainability, and the future of the past / Suzanne Romaine -- When is an "extinct language" not extinct? : Miami, a formerly sleeping language / Wesley Y. Leonard -- Evaluating ...