A new study shows that American Sign Language (ASL) is more linguistically complex than previously understood. In particular, research appearing in the June 2022 issue of the journal Language, ...

Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and ...

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An international team from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook has identified shared statistical patterns in the vocabularies of 22 languages, using AI and centuries of linguistic data. The study found ...

In summer 2022, a linguist mentioned the origin story of the Indo-European languages and how research in the field was racing ahead. I was intrigued because, in the last 10 years, we’ve been able to ...

A new linguistic study sheds light on the nature of languages spoken before the written period, using computational modeling to reconstruct the grammar of the 6500-7000 year-old Proto-Indo-European ...