A Stata Center wing and celebratory event mark their achievements and the next generation of linguistics research at MIT.

This aspect of syntax helps us do much more than just build sentences, linguist Shigeru Miyagawa contends.

Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.

System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to history.

Even when people believed Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election, they did not use “she” to refer to the next president.

Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans.