In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness ...

Shannon McCoole ran one of the world's largest dark web child abuse forums for around three years in the early 2010s. The forum provided a secure online space in which those interested in abusing ...

A new framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary leap but from the convergence of many biological abilities and cultural processes.

In a faculty meeting on Nov. 3, the Program in Linguistics was declared an independent academic unit. Finalized via a unanimous vote, this change moves the program out of the Council of the Humanities ...

UB linguist Fabiola Henri says the projects will focus on creole languages that are underrepresented in both research and new technologies.

The hunt to decode one of the world’s strangest writing systems has shifted from a fringe obsession to a serious scientific effort, powered by new tools and a fresh generation of researchers. What ...

RegICON 2025 kicks off at Gauhati University, focusing on AI and NLP to preserve Northeast India's linguistic diversity. The ...

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder is a major center of interdisciplinary research in cognitive-functional linguistics, computational linguistics, language ...

Cindy Santisteban has applied knowledge from her double major in linguistics and Spanish to jobs in e-commerce, marketing localization and, above, teaching English as a second language in Cartagena, ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language—its structure and diversity, how it’s learned and understood, and how it shapes cultural practices. As a linguistics major you’ll study all ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...