40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor

A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some ...

Earliest known writing dates back over 40,000 years

“The artifacts date back to tens of thousands of years before the first writing systems, to the time when Homo sapiens left Africa, settled in Europe, and encountered Neanderthal,” explained Ewa ...
Discover Magazine

40,000-Year-Old Stone Age Symbols May Be a Precursor to Written Language

Learn how researchers analyzed 3,000 Paleolithic symbols to uncover structured information comparable to early writing systems.
Los Angeles Times

Writing and speaking come from different parts of the brain, study shows

Written and spoken language can exist separately in the brain, a new study from Johns Hopkins shows. The study looked at stroke victims with aphasia that impaired their communication capabilities in ...
Nature

Second Language Writing and Linguistic Development

Second language writing represents a critical domain where linguistic development and academic proficiency converge. Over recent decades researchers have deepened our understanding of how learners’ ...