My first encounter with the word “Latinx” came in 2020 while covering the health disparities faced by people of color in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. I read the word before ever hearing it ...

A research team led by Northwestern Engineering’s Luis Amaral has developed an algorithmic approach for data analysis that automatically recognizes uninformative words — known as stop words — in a ...

Recognizing spoken words is a split-second competition, and a new study defines how people approach that competition and ultimately recognize words. The researchers identified three main approaches by ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. In April 2023, Pew Research Center published an analysis of mission statements ...

[This list of the most commonly looked-up words at NYTimes.com is from 2009. We’ve since published the lists for 2010 and 2011 — don’t forget to check those out too. —Josh] If The New York Times ever ...

Identifying the morphographic structure of words is an important skill that helps you guess at the meaning of new words or words within a same-meaning family. To test your ability to break apart a ...