We know that words change all the time and over time, a process language experts describe as “semantic shift,” semantics being the field of language concerned with meaning. Even if we may not ...

Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Why something is called aam (mango), something else called pata (leaf) and another boi (book) seemed to be arbitrary, accdidental, so long to linguists in the world. It was for long believed that ...