Language and Linguistics

Overview

Language and linguistics is the scientific study of human language, including its structure, meaning, use, and the cognitive and social processes that underlie communication. Linguistics examines language at multiple levels, from the sounds of speech in phonetics and phonology, to the formation of words in morphology, the construction of sentences in syntax, and the study of meaning in semantics and of language in context in pragmatics. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field, drawing on and contributing to psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, computer science, and cognitive science, and it spans subfields such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and computational linguistics. Research in this area illuminates how languages are organized and change over time, how children acquire language, how the brain processes it, how languages vary across communities, and how language can be modeled and processed by machines. These questions bear on education, translation, communication technology, and the documentation of the world's languages. The journal Language Research publishes work across the study of language, learning, and communication. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access scholarship relevant to language and linguistics and the broader investigation of how humans use and understand language.

Research published in this journal

2 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

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