How Digital Tools Are Saving Native Languages There are fewer than a dozen fluent first-language speakers of some Native ...

For generations, Native American languages across the United States were pushed toward extinction through government policies designed to erase Indigenous cultures. Children were removed from their ...

Although certain core brain regions are involved in the processing of all languages, these regions show distinct activation patterns during the processing of different languages. The different brain ...

Does learning a new language have to come at the cost of your native language? One common phenomenon in English-speaking countries is the loss of mother languages over the course of a few generations.

When Native students are exposed to their cultural languages, their sense of well-being improves and they’re more likely to graduate, studies show. Similarly, culturally responsive teaching and ...

One of the oldest questions in the history of psychology is about how language influences the mind. Does the language we use impact how we see the world? We know that many of our mental processes are ...

A new study of people who speak many languages has found that there is something special about how the brain processes their native language. In the brains of these polyglots—people who speak five or ...

Olga Kerameos ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Mather House. I find myself using phrases like “lowkey” and “it’s not that deep” that just years ago were totally ...

Bilingual infants exhibit uniquely differentiated brain reactions when exposed to speech sounds from both languages. These young learners have shown an ability to navigate and regulate two distinct ...

Nestled between the fertile soil of the Central Valley and the steep mountains of the western Sierra lies the Tule River Reservation, an expansive region once home to tens of thousands of Native ...

The Alaska Native Language Center is at a pivotal moment. Longtime researchers warn that changes in staffing and ...