Hundreds of MIT students explore fields at the 2015 TOUR de SHASS
Academic expo connects students with MIT-SHASS faculty and courses.
Academic expo connects students with MIT-SHASS faculty and courses.
Fellowship marks the highest honor in the field of linguistics.
Study: In dozens of languages, words that work together stay together.
MIT scholar, and advocate of native-language instruction, backs linguistic change.
The most comprehensive survey of rhyme ever made reveals a new possibility for one of the essential units of language.
New paper suggests people quickly started speaking in a now-familiar form.
Linguist Kai von Fintel engages in research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
New CSAIL genomics work suggests vocalizing birds could tell us more about speech disorders.
A new website offers a glimpse at a lifetime of work, and the chance to support it.
Digest of the MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences features a Nobel Prize, a new professorship in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, three new SHASS websites, and more.
Research illuminates both language and the mind itself.
Grammatical habits in written English reveal linguistic features of non-native speakers’ languages.