The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

Doha, Qatar: The Linguistics and Arabic Lexicography Program at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (SOSH) at the Doha Institute (DI) has announced the opening of call for papers’ submissions ...

Vol. 20, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Language Acquisition in Bilingual and Atypical Populations: Focus on Developmental Comparisons (April–June 2013), pp. 93-108 (16 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, ...

The long-held idea that language learning is better before adulthood is up for debate. Adults have a number of advantages when it comes to learning a second language, and it comes with major benefits.

Dr. Chomsky and Dr. Roberts are professors of linguistics. Dr. Watumull is a director of artificial intelligence at a science and technology company. Jorge Luis Borges once wrote that to live in a ...