For years, linguists have been compiling corpora of different languages and their various subcomponents in order to learn more about the nature of human communication. Analyzing these large datasets of text or spoken language, researchers have been able to draw fascinating conclusions about the underlying grammars of languages, the ways languages have changed over time,…
In my last post, I wrote about John McWhorter’s The Secret Lives of Words, a fascinating article that explained how language changes over time. Building off of that discussion, I’d like to examine the history of ‘lol,’ a word that many of us use in our day-to-day lives, perhaps without giving thought to what it…
The other day, I was skimming through the New York Times’s opinion piece column when I found an absolute gem of an article titled The Secret Lives of Words, written by Columbia University linguist John McWhorter. Today, I’d like to share McWhorter’s insights on why old books sometimes feel so incomprehensible, why our policies surrounding…
Imaging Technologies and AI in the 21st Century Questions surrounding the brain functions behind language learning, speech comprehension, and cognitive disorders have puzzled researchers for decades, but in the last few years, advancements in brain imaging technologies and artificial intelligence have started to produce answers. Now, a new technology out of Carnegie Mellon’s Biomedical Functional…
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My name is Daniel Ben-Levi, and I am a Senior in High School. I avidly research linguistics in my free time, and I run a project-based computational linguistics club at my school. Take a look at my blog to see what I’ve been working on!
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