Humans aren’t the only animals that have names for each other − and studying animals that use names can teach researchers more about how human names evolved.

Study finds language-processing difficulties are an indicator — more so than memory loss — of amnestic mild cognitive impairment.

Master's students Irene Terpstra ’23 and Rujul Gandhi ’22 use language to design new integrated circuits and make it understandable to robots.

Translation involves more than just transferring words from one language to another. Better translations of study materials can improve both the diversity of study participants and research results.

An MIT student and linguistics professor spot an emerging English phrase and examine what it tells us about syntax — but questions remain.

In new research, MIT linguists explore how human language handles leaps from the here and now.

Bilinguals may struggle with hangman but they excel at remembering and categorising objects.

Project leaders at the MIT Language Acquisition Lab say their research could shed new light on the nature of language learning.