As graduation approaches, senior Emma Robertson is taking steps towards her next phase of life. Leading with a strong ...

Through classroom observations and discussions with teachers, students and education officials, Barffour’s research ...

Throughout the history of the language, what has been considered ‘bad’ speech often becomes ‘proper.’ You just have to give ...

For people living in some parts of the United States, their accent might not just indicate where they live, but also who they ...

A new book for scholars, students, and curious readers invites readers to think critically about the promises and perils of ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

The University at Buffalo's Linguistics Department offers a comprehensive program covering the major areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax and discourse/pragmatics.

Pizza, famously, is hard to screw up, so much so that “_____ is like pizza. Even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good,” became shorthand for things in which acceptable quality is very easy to find.

Language is a remarkable human capacity. No group of people has been found that lacks language and no other species has been found to communicate in a similar way. To elucidate what it is that ...

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem attempted to break the impasse by bringing together findings from linguistics, psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and animal communication. A study ...

At a Nov. 3 faculty meeting, faculty voted unanimously to declare the Program in Linguistics an independent academic unit. The change moves the program out of the Council of the Humanities, and into ...

Faculty voted unanimously to approve the Linguistics Program becoming its own independent academic unit at their meeting on Monday. Previously, the program was known as the “Program in Linguistics in ...