Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, aiming to answer the question “What do we know when we know a language?” Although language is involved in nearly every aspect of the human ...

Fans of Sci-Fi and Fantasy have likely come across what is called a "constructed language." This is a language developed by linguists for a specific movie, show ...

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The study of language is fundamental to human endeavor. Whether students want to become a language teacher or a speech therapist, specialize in natural language processing or create “conlangs” ...

The Department of Linguistics submits this white paper with suggestions on how to overcome what we view to be the greatest challenges to working across disciplinary boundaries at the University of ...

Language is something that we do and something that we have. It is a fundamental part of the human experience and indispensable to human progress: humans interact, plan and reason through the medium ...

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that the department is only considering restructuring and that a meeting between the College of Arts and Sciences associate dean for graduate studies ...

A team of three Georgetown University graduate students won an international computational linguistics competition by developing the leading system for discourse relation ...

Most research focuses on global languages like English, French or Chinese. Hawaiian voices have largely been left out.

This talk presents two studies exploring lay attitudes toward deepfake videos. The first uses discourse analysis to examine ...