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Lisa Albert and Matthew Tuttle at their Zoom wedding.

Life at a distance

Snapshots of the widespread Harvard community: A Zoom wedding; reunion in St. Croix; challenges of teaching ASL online; and a taste of Cuba

Campus|

DateApril 30, 2020May 5, 2020

Slang bracket on a board

What’s in a word? The future history of English

Harvard course holds its own March Madness–style tournament for newly minted terms

Campus|

DateMarch 21, 2019March 21, 2019

Decoding languages in the lab

New linguistics facility applies scientific tenets to understanding how we communicate

Arts|

DateFebruary 21, 2018March 6, 2018

A sound all his own

Reeps One brings beatbox wizardry to campus residency

Arts|

DateOctober 27, 2016July 26, 2019

Opinions on punctuation in the 21st century are as varied and intense as feelings about neologisms.

Unhand that comma!

A love-hate punctuation guide from Abramson and Pinker

Arts|

DateSeptember 22, 2016September 22, 2016

A piece published in JAMA Pediatrics hopes to advise parents and pediatricians on how and when to best nurture their babies' intellectual development with conversation.

The power of babble

How parent-child communication from birth to age 3 sets the stage for lifelong success

Science|

DateJuly 6, 2016September 11, 2019

Linguist John Mugane, professor of the practice of African languages and cultures, is the director of Harvard's African Language Program. “The importance of Africa cannot be denied,” he said.

From Swahili to Bemba to Twi

African Language Program reflects two dozen ways in which a vast, rising continent speaks

Arts|

DateMay 16, 2016September 12, 2019

Calvert Ward Watkins

Memorial Minute - Faculty of Arts and Sciences

News|

DateJuly 16, 2015

“He was an inspirational teacher,” said Jay H. Jasanoff, the Diebold Professor of Indo-European Linguistics and Philology and interim chair of the Department of Linguistics. “He was brilliant and all-knowing. He seemed to know every language you had ever heard of ..."

Calvert Watkins dies at 80

Pioneer in Indo-European linguistics and poetics, taught at Harvard for decades

News|

DateMarch 28, 2013

Pedro Mateo, a Harvard postdoctoral fellow in linguistics, is working with professor Maria Polinsky to preserve, promote, and better understand the ancient Mayan languages.

Rescuing ancient languages

Linguists labor to unravel endangered Mayan tongues

Arts|

DateMay 12, 2011May 24, 2019

As a fellow at Radcliffe, John Tiffany is exploring paralanguage, or “everything that comes out of our mouths when we communicate apart from the words.” Intonation, volume, accents, and dialects are Tiffany’s domain for the academic year, as are things such as the works of Shakespeare, aphasics, and linguistics, among others.

Theater’s new frontiers

Director explores the ways people communicate, complete with tics

Arts|

DateMarch 24, 2011June 21, 2019

Change languages, shift responses

Study of bilinguals suggests such switches can help to shape preferences

Science|

DateNovember 2, 2010April 30, 2019

Anthropologist Hymes dies at 82

News|

DateDecember 17, 2009

Wilga Marie Rivers

Faculty of Arts and Sciences — Memorial Minute

News|

DateNovember 20, 2008

Harvard scientists predict the future of the past tense

Mathematicians apply evolutionary models to linguistic standardization

Arts|

DateOctober 11, 2007

Looking for language’s universal logic

Chierchia searches out common underlying structure in languages

Arts|

DateMay 31, 2007

Howard Gardner’s ‘quintet of minds’

Psychologist’s latest work is more than just descriptive

Campus|

DateMay 10, 2007