corpus linguistics

The Man Who Mapped India’s Languages

In 1894, one man embarked on a seemingly impossible quest: to map every language on the Indian subcontinent. Discover the…

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The Dad Who Taped 90,000 Hours of Baby Talk

What if you could record every moment of your child's life to understand how they learn to talk? MIT researcher…

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Deconstructing a Fake Review

Ever wonder if that glowing five-star review is too good to be true? The secrets of deceptive writing are often…

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How a Machine Learns to Hear

Go inside your smart speaker and discover how it turns sound into text through the lens of linguistics. Explore the…

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Tech for Documenting Language

Forget the weathered notebook and tape recorder. Modern linguists are deploying a high-tech toolkit to document endangered languages, using portable…

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Constructing a Field Dictionary from Scratch

Imagine being the first outsider to document a language with no written form. How would you create its first-ever dictionary?…

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Quantifying a Dialect’s ‘Distance’

How different are two dialects, really? Linguists can now answer that question with surprising precision. Discover the methods used to…

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How Algorithms Read Your Resume

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) don't "read" your resume; they parse it using strict linguistic rules. To get past this digital…

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The Anti-Turing Test: What is Author Verification?

Author verification is the "Anti-Turing Test"—a field of linguistic forensics that determines if a specific person wrote a given text.…

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The Great Manx Comeback

In 1974, UNESCO declared the Manx language extinct with the death of its last native speaker, Ned Maddrell. Yet, this…

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