Dialects are a cultural property of animal communication previously described in the signals of several animal species. While dialects have predominantly been described in vocal signals, chimpanzee ...

Human languages differ widely, yet they share systematic regularities in the underlying semantic representations being expressed. How such similarities and differences arise remains unclear, in part ...

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives. By Clay Risen William Labov, whose innovative research into ...