linguist

As a cognitive scientist and linguist, a lot of my research training is about symbols and about the construction of identity in that way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

By examining bodies of written work, linguists can track the rise of such language quirks, says Kimberly Becker, a linguist and co-host of the “Women Talkin’ ‘Bout AI” podcast.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

Michael Hahn, a linguist based in Saarbrücken, set out to answer that question with Richard Futrell from the University of California, Irvine.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2026

“There’s Communications Hill featuring a tower that’s part of the history of Silicon Valley,” the speech-recognition linguist said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026

A controversial minority view is that of the linguist Joseph Greenberg, who groups all Native American languages other than Eskimo-Aleut and Na-Dene languages into a single large family, termed Amerind, with about a dozen subfamilies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

For thousands of years, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists have debated whether language is essential for thought.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

By examining bodies of written work, linguists can track the rise of such language quirks, says Kimberly Becker, a linguist and co-host of the “Women Talkin’ ‘Bout AI” podcast.

From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026

“Cleavage is a wonderful word. It’s what linguists call a contronym because its definition contains its own opposite. It means division, but it also means coming together. It also means the space between things.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

For over a century, experts - linguists, scientists and archaeologists - have tried to crack the Indus script.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

In the 1970s and 1980s linguists applied glottochronological techniques to the Algonkian dictionaries compiled by early colonists.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann