An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Text and talk in the science classroom constitute two of the primary vehicles by which students gain knowledge and make meaning. Yet, both involve the unique language of science. Presentations focused ...

The science of language and linguistics may help advance our understanding of the human mind and behavior. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United ...

THIS admirable treatise may be broadly described as the fitting complement and sequel to the author's “Principles of Comparative Philology.” The method and theories of that work, as he is careful to ...