Readers of your journal unfamiliar with modern linguistics could never have guessed from Eric Banks’s “Return to Fantasy Island” (The Chronicle Review, May 23) that my theories have been accepted by a ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

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 ...

Morphology addresses the structure and formation of words while inflectional paradigms represent the complete set of forms a lexeme may take to convey grammatical distinctions. In recent years, ...

Biology uses generative systems. Genomes consist of an alphabet of four nucleotides, which, together with certain rules for how to produce proteins and organize cells, generates an unlimited variety ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Noam Chomsky has lectured and debated in many forums on numerous topics throughout his long career. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...