Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

The Department of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University offers a Master of Arts in Cognitive Linguistics. Read on to learn more about our program. Prospective students often wonder how ...

Researchers identify a specialized "satellite" language network in the cerebellum, offering new insights into how the brain ...

Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content 'on the fly' -- even if it is ...

For decades, psychologists have argued over a basic question. Can one grand theory explain the human mind, or do attention, ...

Previous studies have reported that the cerebellum, which is most well-known for coordinating the body’s movements, is also ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

I talked recently with Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and other books about language and the mind, about his new book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the ...

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder is a major center of interdisciplinary research in cognitive-functional linguistics, computational linguistics, language ...