Abstract English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the
individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are …

A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is
representative of the typological diversity present in the world's 7000 or so languages …

The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and cultural composition of sub-
Saharan Africa. However, the exact dates and routes taken by the ancestors of the speakers …

Informal social interaction is the primordial home of human language. Linguistically diverse
conversational corpora are an important and largely untapped resource for computational …

During the last three decades, scientists in formal and natural sciences have been
proposing models of language competition. Such models could prove instrumental in …

This wide-ranging volume offers a detailed exploration of coloniality in the discipline of
linguistics, with case studies drawn from Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean …

Are you curious to know what all human languages have in common and in what ways they
differ? Do you want to find out how language can be used to trace different peoples and their …

We describe an open-source dataset providing metadata for about 2,800 language varieties
used in the world today. Specifically, the dataset provides the attested writing system (s) for …

Generating accurate word-level transcripts of recorded speech for language documentation
is difficult and time-consuming, even for skilled speakers of the target language. Automatic …

Language endangerment is political. Speakers and signers of Indigenous and minoritized
languages have repeatedly explained that their languages are endangered due to failures …