Scientific American

Evidence Rebuts Chomsky’s Theory of Language Learning

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...
University of Nevada, Reno

How is the use of computers relevant to the study of human language?

University of Nevada professor Michael Wilson explains three computational linguistics fields and the applications of those ...
The Peninsula

Doha Institute for Graduate Studies to organize international conference on "Forensic Linguistics: Theories and Applications"

Doha, Qatar: The Linguistics and Arabic Lexicography Program at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SOSH) at the Doha Institute (DI) has announced the opening of call for papers’ submissions ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Does the Linguistic Theory at the Center of the Film ‘Arrival’ Have Any Merit?

The aliens’ written language moved in circles, each sentence lacking a defined beginning or end. The alien visitors seemed to view time in a similar manner: as a circular concept. Working to decode ...