Learning Another Language May Slow Brain Aging, Huge New Study Finds (Scientific American)

Objective speech measures capture depressive symptoms and associated cognitive difficulties (Nature)

Multilingualism protects against accelerated aging in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of 27 European countries (Nature)

Speaking Two Languages Might Sharpen Thinking Skills in Kids With Autism (US News and World Report)

Can learning a new language stave off dementia? (New York Times)

Language Penalties and the Job Interview (Celia Roberts)

Need a New Hobby? Learning Another Language Is Like Fitness Training for Your Brain (Real Simple)

Analyzing The Language Of Suicide Notes To Help Save Lives (NPR)

Linguistic red flags from Facebook posts can predict future depression diagnoses (Penn Today)

To raise a confident little talker, learn to speak 'parentese' (NPR)

Every Family Has Its Own Private Language. What Does That Tell Us About Ourselves? (New York Times Magazine)

Everyone recognizes and uses baby talk with infants (NPR)

Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home (The Atlantic)

My Mother Speaks Through Me (New York Times)

My Father was Once Hard to Reach. As he Aged, the Words Began to Flow (Washington Post)

In Real Life, Not All Interruptions are Rude (New York Times)

As I was Saying: The Etiquette of Interruption (New York Times)

White Liberals Present Themselves as Less Competent in Interactions with African-Americans (Yale Insights)

The Normalization of 'FAFO' Might Be Good for English (New York Times)

10,000 words ranked according to their Trumpiness (Quartz)

The Words That Are In and Out With the Biden Administration (New York Times)

New York City bans use of 'illegals' and 'illegal alien' (NBC News)

New Stanford research shows difference in language used by Republicans and Democrats (Stanford Report)

A big Trump case hinges on the definition of ‘emoluments.’ A new study has bad news for him (Washington Post)

In Real Life, Not All Interruptions are Rude (New York Times)

For woman in economics, the hostility is out in the open (New York Times)

This machine read 3.5 million books then told us what it thought about men and women (World Econonomic Forum)

😭 or 😂: Do Your Emojis Make You Look Old? (New York Times)

When Small Words Foretell Academic Success: The Case of College Admissions Essays (PLoS One)

Make life harder (and better): Learn another language (NPR)

How having zero points in tennis — or 'love' — came to sound so sweet (NPR)

Did Neanderthals Have Language? New Research Suggests They Had the Genetic Hardware for It, Like Humans (Smithsonian)

Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s (Science)

New study finds link between receptivity to “corporate bullshit” and weaker leadership skills (PsyPost)

Can apps really make you fluent in another language? (Popular Science)

Can Apple's AirPod Translation Get you Through Tokyo? We Tested It. (New York Times)

😭 or 😂: Do Your Emojis Make You Look Old? (New York Times)

Can Apple's AirPod Translation Get you Through Tokyo? We Tested It. (New York Times)

Ryanair imposes Afrikaans language test on South African passengers (NPR)

New linguistics research casts doubt on decades‑old murder conviction (The Conversation)

UK teenager's rape retraction 'not written by native English speaker' (Sky News)

Speaking Black Dialect in Courtrooms Can Have Striking Consequences (New York Times)

A big Trump case hinges on the definition of ‘emoluments.’ A new study has bad news for him (Washington Post)

Is Extraversion Identifiable by the Words People Use? (Psychology Today)

If You’re House Is Still Available, Send Me an Email: Personality Influences Reactions to Written Errors in Email Messages (Julie Boland & Robin Queen, 2016, in PLoS One)

Impulse and inhibition: the complex ways bilingual brains balance reason with emotion (The Conversation)

How Morality Changes in a Foreign Language (Scientific American)

White Liberals Present Themselves as Less Competent in Interactions with African-Americans (Yale Insights)

Black, Deaf and Extremely Online (New York Times)

Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s (Science)

How much does language shape our thinking? (The New Yorker)

Scientists analyzed years of interviews with Taylor Swift to track how dialects evolve (CNN)

Why do humans use ‘baby voice’ when we speak to pets? (Popular Science)

These dogs can learn new words just by eavesdropping (NPR)

Foul-mouthed parrots are unlikely stars at a British zoo (NPR)

Do you have 'TikTok voice'? It's OK if you don't want to get rid of it (NPR)

Foul-mouthed parrots are unlikely stars at a British zoo (NPR)