Scientists are developing a computer that can read vast amounts of scientific literature, make connections between facts and develop hypotheses.
English language testing, and the research that underpins it, has been elevated to a new level by the increasing global dominance of English, now...
Having just returned from a year spent documenting the language and culture of the remote Inughuit community of north-western Greenland, Dr Stephen...
Of the world's 6,500 living languages, half will cease to be spoken by the end of this century. //-->
An endangered Greek dialect spoken in Turkey has been identified by Dr Ioanna Sitaridou as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its closeness to a...
Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.
For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...
探花直播purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is...
Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they...
Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification...
