Linguistic structures and syntax form the cornerstone of our understanding of human language, delineating the formal rules that govern sentence formation and meaning. This area of research ...

This process is based on linguistic rules that define how the meaning of calls is understood in different sentence structures. For example, the word "ape" can be combined with other words to form ...

Taking It Slow, But Quickly: How Linguistic Structures Form New research examines how we learn to combine syllables into larger units. Posted Mar 08, 2021 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan ...

Grammar is sometimes shaped by restrictions on language use. This is the key finding of a new study to be published in the December issue of the scholarly journal Language, demonstrating how ...

Branches of Linguistics Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, ...

Language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), has appeared continuously since 1925 (4 issues per year). It publishes scholarly articles that report on original research covering the ...

Over the years, a sound story of how language evolved in our species has eventually crystallized, mainly after the Chomskyan revolution in the sixties, which put the focus on the brain, as the ...

Funded by the European Research Council 2019-2013 PI: Kaius Sinnemäki (University of Helsinki) This project researches linguistic adaptation by developing a synthesis of typological and ...

Journal Reference: Lyn Tieu, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla. Linguistic inferences without words. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019; 201821018 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821018116 ...