Mr. Beard, who turns 66 this month, worked at Bucknell University for 35 years, rising to become a professor of linguistics and Russian, and later director of the linguistics department, before ...

This post is by Amy J. Heineke, Associate Professor of Bilingual and Bicultural Education in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago. In a thought-provoking blog post from 2014, Jal Mehta ...

At The HUB Writing Center, we understand languages are powerful tools that express identities, cultures, and values. We know as well that languages are fluid and that their usage changes over time, ...

In my recent book, The Language Myth, I investigate one of the dominant themes that has preoccupied the study of language for the last 50 years or so: whether the rudiments of the human capacity for ...

Students can also opt to focus their elective course choices on the specific domains of the Cognitive Science of Language, Language and Society, Language and Computation, or General Linguistics.

A popular online game shows how linguistic and cultural knowledge may affect whether players can correctly identify different languages, according to a study published April 5, 2017 in the open-access ...

International Mother Language Day, celebrated each year on 21 February, is an opportunity to highlight the instrumental role of the languages we inherited in early childhood, whether we call them ...

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 ...

Learning a foreign language as an adult is challenging, but there are ways you can easily enhance the process. Here are five strategies you can employ to help you learn a new language more efficiently ...