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The Kavli Institute for Neuroscience is pleased to announce Jeffrey Gruen, MD, and Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD, as the recipients of the 2022 Kavli Innovative Research Award.
Languages are dynamic. After just a few hundred years, the English of Chaucer looks bizarre to today’s readers.
Yale researchers investigated the intersection of genetics and linguistics in a new study published on April 16 in the journal PNAS.
In a new study of languages spoken in 43 different populations worldwide, Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues identified variants of a dyslexia gene that correlate with consonant use, establishing a role for genetics in language differences between populations.
Genes may influence the ability to tell certain consonants apart and may play a role in the evolution of languages.