Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are ...

Words related to the natural world, such as 'river,' 'moss,' and 'blossom,' have dramatically declined in English-language ...

After revisions to the Oxford Junior Dictionary, a widely used children's dictionary, led to the removal of such nature words as "acorn," "bluebell" and "otter" in favor of such technology-centric ...

Over the past 220 years, the connection between people and nature has declined by more than 60%. That's the key finding of a study led by Miles Richardson, a professor of nature connectedness at the ...

This summer, researchers at the University of Derby in the UK published a finding that humanity’s connection to nature has declined by more than 60 percent since 1800. The researchers arrived at this ...

Word learning in children represents a fundamental aspect of cognitive development and language acquisition. This area of research explores how young learners overcome the ambiguous nature of their ...

The architecture and processes underlying visual word recognition represent some of the most intricate systems in human cognition. The seemingly simple act of reading a word involves not only a ...

"[B]ased on papers presented at the symposium 'The Interlacing of Words and Things in Gardens and Landscapes: Beyond Nature and Culture' organized by the Garden and Landscape Studies program at ...