Comparative Language Studies investigates the structural, semantic and pragmatic similarities and differences across languages. It draws on methodologies from corpus linguistics, experimental design ...

Modern Languages Open, a peer-reviewed platform for the open access publication of research from across the modern languages, has published the Comparative Literature Section Launch Issue. This ...

Humans are not the only beings that can identify rules in complex language-like constructions -- monkeys and great apes can do so, too, a new study has shown. Researcher used a series of experiments ...

Local publisher and translator Joshua Snider recently released his first book, “An Outline for a Comparative Grammar of Some Algonquian Languages; Ojibway, Cree, Micmac, Natick (Massachusett) and ...

Do you enjoy the adventurous and analytical work of interpreting texts? Are you keen to explore literatures and cultures in an unbordered way, so that national boundaries, disciplinary divisions and ...

The first international comparative list of astronomical words in sign languages is now available. As part of this proposal, the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Astronomy for Sign Languages has been ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study focused on the relationship among language, behavior, cognitive ability, and academic performance constructs for school-aged ...

The words "mama", "cookie", and "paper" might seem innocuous and common enough, but they share a linguistic quality that's statistically rare within the world's collective lexicon: They all contain a ...