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Some languages die – get over it

Perhaps rather than mourning the loss of little-used languages, we should embrace changes that help people communicate more widely

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A language is born – and now it is dying

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Fast asleep? Your unconscious is still listening

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Computers that can argue will be satnav for the moral maze

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A variety of dogs that were trained to sit still so they could have their brains scanned

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Dogs process language like us and can tell when we praise them

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Whisper tech turns secrets into normal speech

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First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language

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Budgies use grammar to find meaning in unfamiliar phrases

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From autism to Chinese, a headset to help you with your language

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The teenager who can't help speaking in a French accent

Scanning the brain of a boy who has foreign accent syndrome has revealed that we use the cerebellum, a primitive region of our brains, to plan speech

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Map of the brain's word filing system could help us read minds

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Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together

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Stuttering isn't only psychological – and a cure might be coming

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Whale algorithm could unlock secrets of their many dialects

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