Source: xAI / Grok Imagine The term “conspiracy theory” calls to mind a variety of dubious claims and controversies, like rumors about Area 51, claims that the Earth is flat, and the movement known as ...

First, we would like to state our philosophy on language and writing. We do not validate any hierarchy when it comes to language traditions. All language traditions emerge from people’s encounters ...

Language is a remarkable human capacity. No group of people has been found that lacks language and no other species has been found to communicate in a similar way. To elucidate what it is that ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

At a Nov. 3 faculty meeting, faculty voted unanimously to declare the Program in Linguistics an independent academic unit. The change moves the program out of the Council of the Humanities, and into ...

In stoichiometric compounds (compounds with fixed ratios of elements), the elemental ratios are dictated by chemical stability, which constrains how much the composition, and consequently the number ...

An anonymous bomb threat is phoned into a school. A lengthy manifesto inciting violence is posted online under a pseudonym. A series of texts is sent from a missing person’s phone, but the person ...

As a computational linguistics student, you'll typically take courses from two departments (linguistics and computer science and engineering). For example, you may study how language relates to race ...

From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these neologisms—newly coined terms—gain acceptance and become part of mainstream ...

The rules can get complicated in a country with French, Dutch and German as official languages. By Jenny Gross A train attendant’s use of both Dutch and French — “goeiemorgen” and “bonjour” — to greet ...

AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come. AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and ...

Jonathan Kasstan receives funding from the British Academy. Michelle Sheehan receives funding from The British Academy and The Leverhulme Trust. Anna D. Havinga does not work for, consult, own shares ...