Topic
Linguistics
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Said and Done for September 2013
Digest of the MIT humanities, arts and social sciences
September 18, 2013 -
Linguistic puzzler
Graduate student Rafael Nonato travels to the fringes of the Amazon rainforest to explore the Brazilian native language of the Kĩsêdjê.
July 22, 2013 -
Decoding ‘noisy’ language in daily life
Study shows how people rationally interpret linguistic input.
April 29, 2013 -
Nine MIT faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Among 198 elected this year to the prestigious honorary society.
April 24, 2013 -
Exploring a breakdown in communication
Study reveals linguistic deficits behind autistic children’s difficulties understanding other people.
April 19, 2013 -
MIT and Haiti sign agreement to promote Kreyòl-language STEM education
Initiative designed to help Haitians gain technical education.
April 17, 2013 -
How human language could have evolved from birdsong
Linguistics and biology researchers propose a new theory on the deep roots of human speech.
February 21, 2013 -
Said and Done for November/December 2012
Digest of humanities, arts and social sciences
November 29, 2012 -
Q&A: Michel DeGraff on teaching STEM in Kreyòl
A model for reaching science-hungry students around the world who speak local languages
October 25, 2012 -
Explaining the origins of word order using information theory
Researchers believe that information theory — the discipline that gave us digital communication — can explain differences between human languages.
October 10, 2012 -
DeGraff awarded $1 million NSF grant to continue linguistics research in Haiti
Funding will help develop classroom tools to teach science and math in Creole for the first time.
October 3, 2012 -
MIT’s place in the world
Inaugural symposium addresses the Institute’s global engagement.
September 20, 2012 -
Said and Done for September 2012
Digest of MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences.
September 17, 2012 -
The complexities of cognitive comparisons
In experiments, linguists examine how we make everyday judgments about groups of objects.
June 11, 2012 -
MIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa named award recipient by the OCW Consortium
Professor Miyagawa recognized with other leaders of the global OpenCourseWare movement.
March 23, 2012 -
Unique languages, universal patterns
MIT linguist reveals how modern English resembles Old Japanese, and other surprising convergences between far-flung tongues.
February 23, 2012 -
MIT Libraries receive papers of distinguished linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky
Significant collection spans a long and distinguished career dating to 1955.
February 9, 2012 -
The group that built the field
Scientific reunion commemorates 50 years of Linguistics at MIT
January 23, 2012 -
The advantage of ambiguity
Cognitive scientists develop a new take on an old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings.
January 19, 2012 -
Joseph Aoun PhD ’82, president of Northeastern University, receives Muh Alumni Award
Biennial award honors MIT alumni achievements in humanities, arts and social sciences.
October 24, 2011