Back-and-forth exchanges boost children’s brain response to language
Study finds engaging young children in conversation is more important for brain development than “dumping words” on them.
Applying philosophy for a better democracy
In Justin Khoo’s new class, students explore how language affects censorship, dissent, truth, and propaganda.
Connecting through conversation
Whether in Cambridge or Shanghai, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard seeks to learn from others’ perspectives and challenge his own.
MIT-Haiti, Google team up to boost education in Kreyòl
Institute-led effort to create STEM lexicon is now available for global translation.
Analyzing the language of color
Cognitive scientists find that people can more easily communicate warmer colors than cool ones.
American Sign Language at MIT
A new club is spreading awareness of Deaf culture and American Sign Language.
Automated screening for childhood communication disorders
Computer system could help identify subtle speech, language disorders in time for early intervention.
Code of the humans
New book by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick explores how people acquired unique language skills.
Four MIT faculty elected 2015 AAAS Fellows
Berggren, Bertschinger, Fink, and Zue are among those recognized for efforts toward advancing science.
What counts as fair?
Neuroscientists find that children’s ability to count is key to distributing resources based on merit.
Learning spoken language
System learns to distinguish words’ phonetic components, without human annotation of training data.
Sabine Iatridou and Kai von Fintel named fellows of the Linguistics Society of America
Fellowship marks the highest honor in the field of linguistics.
How language gives your brain a break
Study: In dozens of languages, words that work together stay together.
3 Questions: Michel DeGraff on Haiti’s new policy for teaching in Kreyòl
MIT scholar, and advocate of native-language instruction, backs linguistic change.