As generative AI and language technologies reshape education, health care, and public life, linguists now play a vital role ...

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

From ASL prosody to bilingual education, professor Ronnie Wilbur’s contributions earn her a spot among the Linguistic Society ...

The Ph.D. program in linguistics was established at the University of Delaware in 1985. Its mission is to provide students with the intellectual ability to understand, create, integrate and apply ...

Metaphor is not merely a literary device but a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes how individuals conceptualise and communicate their experiences. In cognitive linguistics, research into ...

In this community, 85k language enthusiasts have gathered to point out and laugh at examples of linguistics that are so bad ...

The study of linguistic cognition takes you into the heart of the mind. Cognitive linguists examine the language that we use to tell stories, describe feelings and sensory experiences, collaborate ...

The Linguistics major’s empirical breadth requirement is intended to expose you to data in one or more languages other than English through linguistics and/or language study coursework, as laid out in ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language—its structure and diversity, how it’s learned and understood, and how it shapes cultural practices. As a linguistics major you’ll study all ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...