In recent years, language-learning apps, websites, and podcasts have exploded in popularity, promising fun and faster ways to make us fluent. But a new study conducted by UBC English professor Dr.

Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this overview article, I seek to identify and discuss some tendencies in Slavic historical linguistics in recent years. Rather than ...

This elective module imparts knowledge of the regularities and principles of language change and the methods of their study to students. The module is especially related to the specialization in ...

List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Indo-European debate and why it matters -- Part I. The vexatious history of Indo-European studies. Ideology ...

Researchers have tested the capacity of different computational approaches to detect cognates with striking success rates: The best-performing method could detect word relationships with an accuracy ...

Sino-Tibetan linguistics encompasses the comprehensive study of a language family that includes Chinese and Tibeto-Burman languages, characterised by a remarkable diversity in phonological, ...

Much of the studies done in linguistics are done, based on descriptive linguistics, or without studying the historical origin of different words. Unfortunately, this will not help identify migration ...

If you pay a visit to the Singapore Stone, displayed at the National Museum of Singapore, you might be disappointed. That's because the inscription—carrying an unknown writing system transcribing an ...

Here is an example of how the pronunciation of a language has been reconstructed in the past: Various scholars, such as Girolamo Aleandro (1480–1542) and Aldus Manutius (1449–1515) judged that the ...