The father of modern linguistics delivered the first of several public lectures at UCLA on Monday as part of a weeklong lecture series. Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts ...

George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, will talk about how conservative and liberal differences arise from two different models of the family and of the ...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, ...

Around 70,000 years ago several bands of early humans migrated from Africa to separate parts of the globe. One group came to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The research by geneticists ...

There was no room to sit, and they kept coming. There was no room to walk down the aisles, and they still kept coming. By the time Noam Chomsky began his 4 p.m. Monday lecture on biolinguistics, there ...

The Department of Linguistics welcomes Prof. Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow) for her lecture entitled From imitators to innovators: Children and language change as the next instalment in our ...