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Carol Rose Little obtained her PhD from Cornell University. She joined the Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics department as an assistant professor of linguistics in 2021. Prior to coming to ...

A student learning a foreign language must begin with its grammar and spelling as a building block. It is not enough to just know the words, they have to be spelled right. The rationale, of course, is ...

“When we Americans are done with the English language it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.”— Finley Peter Dunne When I graduated from college, sometime near the end of the ...

The beginning of summer offers a columnist the opportunity to address subjects he might avoid the rest of the year because of his focus on domestic and foreign issues. Inattention to proper English ...

Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Xijia Zhang is affiliated with the University of Alberta. Kimberly Noels works for the University of Alberta. She receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

NightOwlGPT empowers endangered languages through AI, ensuring that "Voices Shape Worlds" in the digital age. Driven by Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo’s vision, NightOwlGPT brings digital accessibility to ...

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Language is a beautifully intricate system that allows us to express our thoughts, emotions, and experiences—things that would be incommunicable and senseless otherwise. It serves as a bridge between ...