The study of linguistic cognition takes you into the heart of the mind. Cognitive linguists examine the language that we use to tell stories, describe feelings and sensory experiences, collaborate ...

The science of the structure of human language as applied to the computer. The terms "computational linguistics" and "natural language processing" are often assumed to be synonymous; however, the ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (May 31, 2012) -- As U.S. Soldiers continue to deploy overseas, learning the foreign languages and culture of other countries is critical to mission success, a federal official said ...

DRAPER, Utah – As Utah confronted the COVID-19 pandemic and a succession of earthquakes, linguists in the Utah National Guard helped communicate clear and concise messages to everyone affected in a ...

Lawyers are among the most accomplished professionals when it comes to the mastery of language. Lawyers are also notoriously slow adopters of new technologies that can significantly enhance the ...

Linguists Dr. Gregory D.S. Anderson, PhD., founder and director of Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages (right), and Dr. K. David Harrison PhD., vice president of Living Tongues (left).

UTQIAĠVIK — Edna Ahgeak Paniattaaq MacLean smiled when her granddaughter Sirroun carried a thick tome with two hands and put it carefully on the table before her. “I had some young people or teenagers ...

Linguists working in the Malay Peninsula have identified a language, now called Jedek, that had not previously been recognized outside of the small group of people who speak it. The newly documented ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this story misidentified the state named by Preply as having the slowest talkers. Speech differs greatly throughout the U.S., including how ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...

Linguists working in the Malay Peninsula have identified a language, now called Jedek, that had not previously been recognized outside of the small group of people who speak it. The newly documented ...