Speaking, writing and reading are vital to everyday life, where language remains the primary tool for expression and communication. Each language is like a one-of-a-kind species, capturing unique ...

Everywhere, every day, everybody uses language. There is no human society, no matter how small or how isolated, which does not employ a language that is rich and diverse. This course introduces you to ...

The concentration in linguistics and cognitive science is designed to give students a foundation in the theory of language and its relation to allied fields of inquiry. The concentration emphasizes ...

Linguistics invites us to explore language from a scientific perspective, including how we learn to speak first and additional languages, how languages evolve, and how humans use language to ...

More language has been recorded in the last twenty years than in the entirety of human history. Using computer science algorithms, Computational Linguists can automatically process vast amounts of ...

This book is an introduction to the history and structure of the English lexicon using linguistic concepts. Or, it is an introduction to linguistics through the medium of the English lexicon. Or, it ...

Natural-language-processing applications are ubiquitous: Alexa can set a reminder, or play a particular song, or provide your local weather if you ask; Google Translate can make documents readable ...

For the first time in 36 years, Columbia will be offering a major in linguistics starting spring 2020 following a notice of approval by the New York State Department of Education sent late Tuesday ...

For more than 600 years, English speakers used because as a conjunction meaning “for the reason that,” dutifully following it with a full clause of explanation (or at least the word of). Then, a few ...

Natural-language-processing applications are ubiquitous: Alexa can set a reminder if you ask; Google Translate can make emails readable across languages; Watson outplays world Jeopardy champions; ...