The Program in Linguistics, while small, has experienced a dramatic increase in interest from students representing departments across campus. The field appeals to students who like unraveling ...

Phonological development in children encompasses the progressive organisation of sound patterns that underlie spoken language. This intricate process enables the acquisition of clear and intelligible ...

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, ...

This post is Part 2 of a series. Read Part 1 here. Although speech and language ability is relatively new in our evolutionary history—our ape cousins can’t speak—it may be built on a foundation that ...

Sifting through two-thirds of the world’s languages, scientists have discovered a strange pattern: Words with the same meanings in different languages often seem to share the same sounds — even when ...

A new study suggests that the phonemic composition of words influences as how beautiful we perceive them to be, and how well ...