Nicaraguan Sign Language
Psychologist Marie Coppola and linguist Diane Brentari on deaf education, linguistic models of signs and the d...
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psychology
September 7, 2016
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linguistics
August 22, 2016
Constructed Languages
Linguist Marc van Oostendorp on international communication, beautiful and ugly sounds, and paradox of constru...
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linguistics
July 20, 2016
Language Acquisition
Linguist Kenneth Wexler on human capacity for language, verb raising in French, and Noam Chomsky's Universal G...
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psychology
June 22, 2015
Cognitive Advantages of Bilingualism
Harvard Prof. Maria Polinsky on introducing two languages, the importance of literacy and advantages of biling...
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genetics
February 18, 2015
Comparing genes and linguistic sounds across human...
Joint analysis of data on genomics, linguistics and geography leads to new insights into their interference
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linguistics
February 6, 2015
Environment influences language generation
New paper in PNAS proposes unexpected relationship between language and habitat
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economics
September 3, 2014
Language of Politics
Linguist Noam Chomsky on two meanings of political terms, primary principle of international relations, and ro...
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linguistics
August 6, 2014
Experimental Linguistics
Linguist Maria Polinsky on behavioral approaches, resumptive pronouns, and presence of genders in different la...
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linguistics
February 17, 2014
Language Design
Linguist Noam Chomsky on the syntactic principle of language, the linguistic capacity of humans, and the laws ...
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linguistics
January 30, 2014
Heritage Language
Harvard Prof. Maria Polinsky on receptive bilingualism, the "First In Last Out" hypothesis, and what people fo...
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media
January 24, 2014
Global Language Network
Media scientist Cesar Hidalgo on multilingualism, hierarchy of the language networks, and cross-lingual resear...
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linguistics
December 23, 2013
Linguistic Theory of Question
Linguist Maria Polinsky on polar questions, strategy of asking in different languages, and cross-linguistic un...
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