Linguistics in the News Archive
In its FY 2014 budget resolution, the House of Representatives Budget Committee called for the complete elimination of funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), writing that the programs funded by NEH “…go beyond the core mission of the federal government, and they are generall
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today $3.7 million in awards as a part of a joint
Ray Jackendoff, co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and Seth Merrin professor of philosophy at Tufts University, was named the 2014 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize on Aug. 2.
A Google+ Hangout series sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities explores the connections between the STEM fields and the Humanities. These discussions are an important way to engage White House officials and Members of Congress in humanities issues.
An NPR report discusses how “the skills of aspiring linguists … are coveted by employers looking for talent in this increasingly important field.
A new report from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) spotlights research conducted under the auspices of the Documenting Endangered Languages
There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and half of them could disappear by the end of the century.
An article in the MIT news describes the type of work undertaken by many linguists in the field today. Read about graduate student Rafael Nonato’s travels to the fringes of the Amazon rainforest to explore the Brazilian native language of the Kĩsêdjê.
On July 31, the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee considered a 49 percent ($71 million) cut to the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The Heart of the Matter, a report of the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, is intended to advance a dialogue on the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the future of our nation.
The One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage program at the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will highlight language diversity as a vital part of our human heritage.
North Carolina State University graduate student Joshua Katz was looking for an idea for his end-of-year statistics project when he came across interesting linguistics data from Dr. Bert Vaux of Cambridge University.
A group of Moscow researchers have collected recordings of a unique Russian dialect spoken by a handful of elderly people in Alaska, isolated for more than a century from modern Russian. There are 20 people, all over the age of 75, living in the Alaskan village of Ninilchik who speak the pe
LSA member Patricia L. Irwin, a linguist who recently completed her PhD at New York University, has been awarded a New Faculty Fellowship in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania.
A new study conducted by linguists at the University of Pennsylvania has shown that children as young as 2 understand basic grammar rules when they first learn to speak and are not simply imitating adults. The study also applied the same statistical analysis on data from one of the most fam
In a statement issued by the American Political Science Association, the amendment was characterized as "a devastating blow to the integrity of the scientific process at the National Science Foundation (NSF)." The political science budget at NSF is part of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic (SB
In a news release issued by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rita Izsak urged world governments to "take significant and urgent efforts to protect both minority communities and their language heritage." In her report to the UN Human Rights Council, Izsak says that "Languag
View LSA Member and Columbia University linguist John McWhorter give a talk at the 2013 TED Conference in New York, where he makes the case for texting as a brand new way of usi