2002-12-15 04:00:00 PDT New York-- This city has long been a laboratory for the study of language, a petri dish in which dialects mingle and collide, where linguists have lurked incognito in ...

In an attempt to map Spanish dialects on a global scale, linguistics researchers Bruno Gonçalves and David Sánchez analyzed more than 50 million geotagged tweets, looking at certain words which vary ...

A dialect is a particular form of language limited to a specific region or social group. Linguists are fascinated by dialects because they reveal social classes, patterns of immigration and how groups ...

I’ve discovered something fascinating about how Spanish speakers in Philadelphia address each other and communicate through public signs. The discovery is part of my research on language patterns in ...

Aug. 6—New Mexico is a melting pot of cultures that somehow find influence among one another. A strong example of that is the Spanish dialect in northern New Mexico. The dialect is known as having ...

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