Phonology – the systematic organisation of sounds in language – plays a critical role in language acquisition, reflecting the interplay between innate predispositions and environmental input. Research ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Automatic alternations, those traditionally understood to be required by phonetic structure, have not been a part of transformational ...

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 ...

My empirical research on linguistic practice in India has been foundational to a series of articles coauthored with Mary Bucholtz that interrogate the relationship between language and identity. Our ...

Linguistics is the study of language, but what does that even mean? Language is everywhere. Linguistics is the study of language, but what does that even mean? In this episode of Crash Course ...

The Ph.D. program in linguistics was established at the University of Delaware in 1985. Its mission is to provide students with the intellectual ability to understand, create, integrate and apply ...

In Part I (§§1-2) of this paper, previously published, it was argued that a 'mirror image' convention must be incorporated into linguistic metatheory in order to account for various syntactic ...

The CU Department of Linguistics has a strong commitment to inclusive excellence at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Students are offered foundational coursework and research opportunities ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...