Rhyming Slang
Rhyming slang – the traditional language of Cockney Londoners – can be traced back to the 17th century, thought it became widely known only in the 19th century. It probably began as a kind of thieves jargon in the East End of London,...
Play Languages
Children all over the world devise their own ‘secret’ play languages, mostly just for fun. But some scholars argue that these play languages also has a serious role: in introducing changes into the languages of adults. Two British...
Baby’s first words
Babies begin to recognize elements of speech sounds very shortly after birth, and to imitate the patterns of speech well before they begin to form intelligible words. At the age of one month they begin to distinguish between certain features of the...
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