Humans have a natural drive to reduce physical effort in nearly every activity, including using language. Instead of saying "goodbye", we often say "bye", getting the same message across with half the ...

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, ...

Research Assistant: Mac computer-based annotation & analysis of ASL video data, and help with testing and development of software tools. Requirements: ASL proficiency (at least equiv. to having ...

Seven students made history when they became the first batch of deaf students to receive high diplomas in linguistics. The students — three from Hong Kong, two from Sri Lanka and two from Indonesia — ...

Humans have a natural drive to reduce physical effort in nearly every activity, including using language. The ways that effort-reduction affect human language have been the subject of extensive ...

(Washington, DC) - Humans have a natural drive to reduce physical effort in nearly every activity, including using language. Instead of saying "goodbye", we often say "bye", getting the same message ...