Cognitive science applies diverse tools and perspectives to study human language.
Recently, an exciting body of work has examined linguistic phenomena through the lens of …

Over the last few years, the number of corpora that can be used for language comparison
has dramatically increased. The corpora are so diverse in their structure, size and …

This discussion note reviews responses of the linguistics profession to the grave issues of
language endangerment identified a quarter of a century ago in the journal Language by …

Why is breathing relevant in linguistics? In this review, we approach this question from
different perspectives. The most popular view is that breathing adapts to speech because …

Planning to speak is a challenge for the brain, and the challenge varies between and within
languages. Yet, little is known about how neural processes react to these variable …

Voice assistants interrupt people when they pause mid-question, a frustrating interaction that
requires the full repetition of the entire question again. This impacts all users, but particularly …

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for
students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous …

Previous research indicates that infant-directed speech (IDS) is usually slower than adult-
directed speech (ADS) and mothers prefer placing a focused word in isolation or utterance …

Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

Recent research has revealed several languages (eg Chintang, Rarámuri, Tagalog,
Murrinhpatha) that challenge the general expectation of strict sequential ordering in …