Natural Learners
Why do kids learn language so much better than adults?
Characters in Search of Writers
Victor Mair on forgetting how to write in Chinese.
Unlearning to Talk: Q&A with Charles Yang
How children learn language; or, why wuckoo?
What Linguists Talk About When they Talk about Language
Linguists blog on Language Log
Understanding Pashto
Benedicte Grima Santry spent years in the remote reaches of Afghanistan and Pakistan. What she learned—and now teaches—is invaluable, especially in the wake of 9/11.
Continental Drift
In his latest work, an atlas of North American English, Penn sociolinguist Bill Labov shows that we are talking more differently from one another.
Parsing the Influence of Zellig Harris
Recalling the contributions of linguistics pioneer Zellig Harris.
Nerds Gone Bad
The Queen of Obscurica meets her match.
Speech!
More than a half century after he nearly dropped out of Penn, Noam Chomsky towers over the field of linguistics and the politics of dissent. What would have happened if he hadn't met Zellig Harris?