The importance of language is hard to overestimate, yet few of us are aware of the sheer breadth and diversity of language research.
Almost 2,000 years after its last native speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian is being lined up for an unlikely comeback, in an...
A major gift from prominent Ukrainian businessman Dmitry Firtash to the University of Cambridge has permanently endowed Western Europe's premier...
A project to document the unique language and culture of a remote Inuit community which is threatened by the effects of climate change is being...
An endangered Greek dialect spoken in Turkey has been identified by Dr Ioanna Sitaridou as a "linguistic goldmine" because of its closeness to a...
For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...
The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is...
A new project is recording and making accessible the endangered oral literatures of indigenous peoples before they are lost forever.
A new Grammar will be the first comprehensive description of the medieval and early modern Greek language.
Even though we might be able to hear someone speaking, our powers for understanding what is actually being said switch off as we go to sleep.
Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification...
