A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By ...

Researchers have sought to prove the existence of such long-debated “ universals ” governing languages across the globe. Now, ...

Last April, the University of Southern California announced plans to eliminate its German department, stating that it wanted to shift resources away from European languages to Asian languages like ...

In an era of dwindling budgets, universities have identified language programs as an area for possible cuts. Languages with few students are being framed as luxuries that cannot be afforded during a ...

The study is published in the Journal of Language Evolution. AI-based language models like ChatGPT are getting better and better at mimicking human language and are increasingly being used as a tool ...

University students of yesteryear read the classics. Aristotle, Euclid, Homer and Plato were part of the regular course of study. And students read these challenging texts in their original languages ...

At Connecticut College, students explore intercultural communication skills as an integral part of liberal learning. All students are expected to study another language for at least two semesters; ...

Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

Laura V. Cuya moved from Mexico to Hungary with her dog, Kun-Kun, to join the Neuroethology of Communication Lab at the Department of Ethology, Eötvös Loránd University. It wasn’t long before a ...