In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness ...

Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

Best known as a leading Researcher on Muslim philosophers with an analytic approach, Nadia Maftouni is a senior research scholar at Yale University (2019-2021) and faculty of University of Tehran.

If you are fluent in any language other than English, you have probably noticed that some things are impossible to translate ...

Journal of Slavic Linguistics, Vol. 25, No. 2, Special Issue: Silver Anniversary Issue (summer-fall 2017), pp. 367-386 (20 pages) We outline some recent highlights in the application of cognitive ...

Charles Hockett’s ‘design features’ no longer reflect major findings in linguistics, cognitive science, and biology.

The mental basis of linguistic intuitions is obscure, as regards their relationship both to other aspects of language behavior, such as speaking and listening, and to an hypothesized epistemological ...

Have you ever wondered why so many reporters don’t know that “criterion” is singular and “criteria” is plural? How many times have you read something like this in a magazine: “The student who brings a ...

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