Linguistics

A PirahÃ£ man participates in an experiment that MIT researchers say indicates his language contains no number words.

MIT-led team finds language without numbers

Amazonian tribe has no word to express 'one,' other numbers

June 24, 2008

MIT: No easy answers in evolution of human language

February 17, 2008

MIT research among Nature magazine's 2007 favorite

January 14, 2008

This illustration is a visual representation of data by MIT and Harvard scientists on how irregular verbs regularize over time. Verb size in the image corresponds to usage frequency. Large verbs tend to stay sequestered at the top, while smaller verbs tend to fall through to the bottom. The paper predicts that 'wed' is the next verb to regularize, so it teeters on the brink.

Predicting the future of the past tense

Mathematicians apply evolutionary models to language

October 15, 2007

MIT Linguistics Professor David Pesetsky

Linguists doubt exception to universal grammar

April 23, 2007

Army linguist learns language of leadership as an MIT Sloan Fellow

November 22, 2006

MIT graduate student Chris Loose, left, and Professor Greg Stephanopoulos look for signs of bacteria. The researchers and their colleagues have custom-designed molecules that are effective in killing microbes.

MIT's anti-microbial 'grammar' posits new language of healing

Custom peptides punch holes in anthrax, staph bacteria

October 19, 2006

SHASS announces new department heads

September 12, 2006

Media Lab project explores language acquisition

May 15, 2006

Warbling whales speak a language all their own

March 22, 2006

Swager, Yablo to head departments

April 5, 2005

Professor Norvin Richards holds the Lardil dictionary compiled by his late mentor, Professor Kenneth Hale, and others.

Professor brings Aboriginal language to life

October 22, 2003

Left to right: MIT professors Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, and Harvard professor Hilary Putnam discussed the question, "What do we know about human nature?" in a two-hour colloquium.

Panelists in four colloquia address questions of 'human importance'

October 18, 2000

Talk on language and cognition planned

September 27, 2000

Researcher uses new imaging technique to learn how brain processes language

February 24, 1999

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