Linguistics

AI is biased against speakers of African American English, study finds

Large language models attributed negative attributes, less prestigious jobs and more convictions to speakers

New book explores emergence of touch-based language in DeafBlind communities

In ‘Going Tactile,’ UChicago linguistic anthropologist Terra Edwards investigates the nature of communication and its limits

From Israeli digs to Greenland villages, UChicagoans travel the world for research

Students, faculty share how they spent their summers studying everything from languages to glaciers

To reduce vaccine hesitancy, language matters in building public trust

Study finds that the same information, presented in a different language, can boost confidence

How the way we talk both unites and divides us

In new book, Prof. Katherine D. Kinzler argues that how you speak reflects who you are

Michael Silverstein, groundbreaking anthropologist and linguist, 1945-2020

In half-century at UChicago, scholar made ‘foundational’ contributions to understanding of language