Language news: Thursday, June 20, 2024

Readers are known to have a keen interest in the science and art of language, too. Here are some recent posts related to language that we thought were worth highlighting!

• Read about how babies and young children learn to understand language in an excerpt from The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved by Steven Mithen (Literary Hub).

• Eight years after author Jhumpa Lahiri announced that she'd be writing exclusively in Italian, Aditya Gandhi examines the work she's created and why another language — and specifically Italian — provides Lahiri a kind of freedom (Public Books).