Language sciences

The UK Government needs to urgently adopt a new, comprehensive languages strategy if it is to keep pace with its international competitors and reduce...

The ability to understand language could be much better preserved into old age than previously thought, according to researchers from the University...

The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages as...

The University of Cambridge is to launch a major new research project to study the benefits of multilingualism to individuals and society, and...

A web-based machine language system solves crossword puzzles far better than commercially-available products, and may help machines better understand...

A new research project examining a linguistic construction called the Verb Second constraint could, academics believe, help to explain how people...

Millions of English language tests are taken each year by non-native English speakers. Researchers at Cambridge’s ALTA Institute are building...

James Clackson's new book looks at what language use can tell us about ancient societies.

Research into a ‘playful’ and increasingly popular urban language that grew out of the necessity for criminals to hide their true intent could help...

Individual differences in early language development, and in later language functioning, are associated with changes in the anatomy of the brain in...