The University of Massachusetts Amherst Linguistics Department hosted its annual Freeman Lecture featuring Dr. J. Michael Terry, associate professor of linguistics at the University of North Carolina ...

The Wolf Humanities Center table in the ARCH building on Oct. 9. Credit: Sanjana Juvvadi The Wolf Humanities Center hosted Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer at the ARCH building for a ...

This series comprised six lectures on music, which cumulatively took the title of a work by Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question. Bernstein drew analogies to other disciplines, such as poetry, ...

Around 70,000 years ago several bands of early humans migrated from Africa to separate parts of the globe. One group came to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The research by geneticists ...

The Department of Linguistics welcomes Prof. Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow) for her lecture entitled From imitators to innovators: Children and language change as the next instalment in our ...