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 ...

When Spanish meets English, new dialects emerge – giving us real-time insight into language evolution, linguists say. "Vamos de punches punches punches", Yamilet Muñoz texted her friends in Austin, ...

Spearheaded by researchers from three UC campuses, the Multilingual Hispanic Speech in California project, or MuHSiC, seeks to compile a database of bilingual Spanish-English speech samples to provide ...

I don't believe that in the Caribbean we are any different from other people with regard to modifying the languages we adopted from other parts of the world with local variations of standard terms as ...

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 ...

From Spanish male and female dog names to ones inspired by Spanish food, you'll love all of the options we came up with. The ...

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 ...

Dialects tend to be very colourful and expressive and often do not have the same impact when "translated", even into their "parent" language. As I mentioned in a previous article my parents were from ...