General Linguistics broadens and deepens your training in a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to language structure and language in use. Special emphasis is put on linguistic ...

Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, ...

The main research question of the project is: do language structures adapt to sociolinguistic context across the languages of the world? The project has 4 objectives: to develop a methodological ...

The structure of a text is how it is organised and how its parts fit together. Writers structure their texts deliberately to have an effect on the reader. Exam questions ask you to comment on how ...

A new study finds that humpback whale song shares statistical structures with human language, suggesting that cultural ...

The structure of a text is how it is organised and how its parts fit together. Writers structure their texts deliberately to have an effect on the reader. Exam questions ask you to comment on how ...

How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication? To investigate, researchers at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim ...

The amount of structure built at each word, quantified via incremental node count, is reflected in the dynamics of the network, which lead to a neural signal measurable with magnetoencephalography ...