Back in the 1980s, we blamed Aussie soaps Neighbours and Home and Away for reshaping the way teenagers spoke. Today, that ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

Cecelia Cutler is the co-editor of “Language Activism: The Role of Scholars in Linguistic Reform and Social Change” A new scholarly movement is pushing beyond the research–activism divide. The book ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford and the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has found that large language models (LLMs) – the AI systems behind chatbots like ChatGPT – generalize ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

This study examines the acceptability of voweled and vowelless nonwords produced by a native speaker of Tashlhiyt (a Moroccan Amazigh language) across listeners from five different language groups: L1 ...

CU Linguistics is pleased to present in a lecture by UIUC professor and computational linguist, Dr. Jonathan Dunn, in partnership with the Institute of Cognitive Science. This talk presents a ...

This line of defense could be the strongest yet. But no shield is perfect. AI firm Anthropic has developed a new line of defense against a common kind of attack called a jailbreak. A jailbreak tricks ...

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives. By Clay Risen William Labov, whose innovative research into ...

Summary: A new study explores how cultural practices influence the transmission of native languages, showing that societal norms like matrilineal or patrilineal inheritance can affect linguistic and ...

The Research Topic “Complexity in Language Variation and Change” in Frontiers in Complex Systems gathers a Research Topic of research contributions covering a wide range of issues in the field of ...