Michael Erard is an author, journalist, and linguist.

Últimos Artículos

These brothers are combining linguistics and AI to increase the quality of end-of-life care

One afternoon in the summer of 2018, Bob Gramling dropped by the small suite that serves as his lab in the basement of the University of Vermont’s medical school. There, in a grey lounge ...

04 sep 2019

Educación y habilidades

Studying an emerging sign language won’t kill it – so what are linguists scared of?

Connie de Vos was sitting on her hands. It was 2006, her first stay in the Balinese village of Bengkala, and visitors had come every night to her house, sitting on the floor of the front ...

01 mar 2019

How our brains treat foreign accents

People around the world are hearing more foreign accents than at any time in human history, as more people move around than ever before.

26 feb 2016