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The MIT professor accused of harassing a Jewish PhD student out of the university by calling him a “real-life case study” of ...

When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. "Nobody cared ...

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Noam Chomsky is a public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism and social criticism. I stumbled ...

We cannot force students to write "original" prose without any external help. But we can teach them to be responsible authors ...

Meghan Marie Agnew has been named to the President’s List at Iowa State University. Agnew, from Tonganoxie, is majoring in linguistics. Students achieving the designation maintained a 4.0 grade-point ...

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The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science offers a small number of teaching assistantships, graduate assistantships, and/or research assistantships to Ph.D. students. The awards are granted ...

Describing artificial intelligence as having neural networks and understanding language has implications for how we understand both AI and the human brain.

The University of Illinois Chicago may be dissolving its School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics in the coming weeks and terminating all of the school’s nontenured faculty at the ...