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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...