Dissecting the Language of Music
In his current project, with the working title By Crystal Fountains: Music, Language, and Grammar, Professor Larry Zbikowski tries to illuminate the difference between music and language. Professor...
View ArticlePartha Niyogi, Computer Science Professor, 1967-2010
University of Chicago Professor Partha Niyogi, who applied computation to the analysis of speech recognition, language evolution and data analysis, died Friday, Oct. 1, at his home in Chicago's Hyde...
View ArticleMartha Roth
Roth researches and publishes on the legal and social history of the ancient Near East. Her primary interests are on family law and on women’s legal and social issues, and on the compilation and...
View ArticleSusan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow has done extensive research on how our hands help us talk and think. She discovered that deaf children whose hearing losses prevent them from learning spoken languages and whose...
View ArticleSalikoko Mufwene
Salikoko Mufwene is a linguist who has spent the past 20 years working on characteristics of Gullah, African American English, Jamaican Creole and English. A faculty member at the University of...
View ArticleSteven Collins
Steven Collins' current research interests include gender in the civilizational history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, and Pali Buddhist accounts of madness. He is the author of Selfless...
View ArticleMichael Silverstein
Michael Silverstein’s contributions to anthropology, linguistics and psychology range from modeling the flow of socially effective meanings during verbal interaction to the way language is a focus of...
View ArticleLanguage may be dominant social marker for young children
Children’s reasoning about language and race can take unexpected turns, according to University of Chicago researchers, who found that for younger white children in particular, language can loom...
View ArticleIslamist Movements in South Asia
Journalist Ahmed Rashid and professor Ebrahim Moosa discuss the often overlooked social and political context of Islamist movements in South Asia. Rashid examines recent political developments in the...
View ArticleThinking in a foreign language helps economic decision-making
In a study with implications for businesspeople in a global economy, researchers at the University of Chicago have found that people make more rational decisions when they think through a problem in a...
View ArticleThe Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture 2014
The Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture 2014 at the University of Chicago featured John A. Goldsmith, the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Linguistics and Computer...
View ArticleUChicago students win 11 Critical Language Scholarships from State Department
The U.S. Department of State has awarded Critical Language Scholarships to 11 UChicago students who will spend the summer learning languages overseas. These highly competitive scholarships pay all...
View ArticleLinguists tackle computational analysis of grammar
Children don’t have to be told that “cat” and “cats” are variants of the same word—they pick it up just by listening. To a computer, though, they’re as different as, well, cats and dogs. Yet it’s...
View ArticleHarper Lecture with Dana Suskind: What Difference Do 30 Million Words Make?
Before they are even one year old, infants born into poverty score lower in cognitive development than their more affluent peers. By their fourth birthday, these children will have heard, on average,...
View ArticleDissecting the Language of Music
In his current project, with the working title By Crystal Fountains: Music, Language, and Grammar, Professor Larry Zbikowski tries to illuminate the difference between music and language. Professor...
View ArticlePartha Niyogi, Computer Science Professor, 1967-2010
University of Chicago Professor Partha Niyogi, who applied computation to the analysis of speech recognition, language evolution and data analysis, died Friday, Oct. 1, at his home in Chicago's Hyde...
View ArticleMartha Roth
Roth researches and publishes on the legal and social history of the ancient Near East. Her primary interests are on family law and on women’s legal and social issues, and on the compilation and...
View ArticleSusan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow has done extensive research on how our hands help us talk and think. She discovered that deaf children whose hearing losses prevent them from learning spoken languages and whose...
View ArticleSteven Collins
Steven Collins' current research interests include gender in the civilizational history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, and Pali Buddhist accounts of madness. He is the author of Selfless...
View ArticleSalikoko Mufwene
Salikoko Mufwene is a linguist who has spent the past 20 years working on characteristics of Gullah, African American English, Jamaican Creole and English. A faculty member at the University of...
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