FROM THE TRENCHES
Jun 13, 2019
3 minutes
—LYDIA PYNE
YOU SAY WHAT YOU EAT
ry saying “f” and “v” and pay close attention to your lower lip and upper teeth. Would it surprise you to learn that these sounds are relatively recent additions to human languages? Languages, of course, develop over time as usage, meaning, and pronunciation change. But what about the ways our bodies have changed over the millennia? Could this also contribute to changes in language? In a new study, researchers from the Max Planck
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