One of the most prototypical questions linguists get asked is, "How many languages do you speak?" Linguists get asked this que...

The advantages of being able to speak more than one language have long been touted, but recently, with advances of scientific technology, th...

Anyone in my courses right now is either already working on or will shortly be working on learning the IPA and putting it to use through tra...

In Structures of English, we've been talking about attitudes people have toward language, especially toward particular words or accents ...

I first heard about the whistled language of Gomera from a student in my Introduction to Linguistics course; as soon as class ended, I YouTu...

Linguistically speaking, the differences between spoken and written language are well documented; however, my focus for this post is differe...

The poll featured in the sidebar is geared toward identifying student interest in more advanced topics (not toward guaranteeing the offering...