Abstract: Forensic speaker comparison depends on precise vowel identification. Yet existing methods have a few bottlenecks in the sense that they need manual processing or language-specific resources.

In January middle school and high school students at more than 200 host sites across the U.S. and parts of Canada competed in the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition (NACLO), ...

Princeton will now offer a Linguistics major in lieu of the current Independent Major option, allowing the Class of 2028 and beyond to declare a major in linguistics. The proposal was formally ...

The neural data acquisition and acoustic-linguistic dual-pathway framework for neural-driven natural speech re-synthesis. (A) The neural data acquisition. We collected ECoG data from 9 monolingual ...

Child neglect is the most common form of maltreatment, involving failure to provide basic needs or proper supervision, often difficult to define precisely. Originating from Latin meaning “not to heed, ...

A Purdue professor has been honored as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for her more than five decades of service to language communities. One of the world’s leading figures in sign ...

This study presents a valuable advance in reconstructing naturalistic speech from intracranial ECoG data using a dual-pathway model. The evidence supporting the claims of the authors is solid, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

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 ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

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 ...