Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

The science of linguistics has fully as many facets and fields as biology, and like biology, what may be called its 'modern era' can be traced to the 1950s 1. The decade that unveiled the structure of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Intel Corp. will throw its considerable weight behind the latest EDA standards effort this week, as it recruits Synopsys, Verisity and Co-Design to back the chip giant's ForSpec ...