National Geographic goes (or went – this article is from 2013) into the science of forensic linguists, using computers to analyze things like word choice […]
The Conversation looks at a way that Fatemeh Torabi Asr, a computational linguistics researcher at Simon Fraser University, has devised to use computers to instantaneously […]
Science News has a fricative breakthrough – biting off a bit of linguistic evolution that took place when we started growing our own food rather […]
German researchers, as disclosed in Science Daily, have found a singularly creative language – a form of whistled Turkish that, unlike any other language on […]
Nature has more on the math whizzes of the South Pacific: Binary arithmetic, the basis of all virtually digital computation today, is usually said to […]
I heard this on NPR, but it’s been doing the rounds lately – as all happy news should. Rather than mourning the death of yet […]
SONG: “Spirit of the Words” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Computer program roots out ancestors of modern […]
Nature reports on the algorithm researchers have devised to find (or recreate) the ancestors of modern languages: Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-Côté of the University of British […]
Nature reveals that no matter what language you’re reading, your brain lights up the same way when you do it: Previous studies have suggested that […]
BBC reports on the linguists who have started puzzling out how to read and write in proto-Elamite: “I think we are finally on the point […]
New York Times reviews a new dictionary of a really old language: Demotic was one of the three scripts inscribed on the Rosetta stone, along […]
The BBC reveals that English (and just about every other European language) descends from an ancestor that was not Russian, as was the popular belief, […]
Wired brings us another step closer to talking with the animals, thanks to research showing that mama parrots give their babies names: Before a green-rumped […]
SONG: “The Shape of Your Words.” [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Kiki or bouba? In search of […]
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – […]
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