Q&A weekly thread - December 22, 2025 - post all questions here!
(self.linguistics)
3 points
r/linguistics
Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure
()
109 points
Death of Lars Johanson (8 Mar 1936 - 24 Nov 2025)
(linguistlist.org)
13 points
To the sign language experts here: researchers help create signs related to mental health terminology in Bangla Sign Language. Can I get a linguist's perspective?
(thelancet.com)
The Attentional Optimization Hypothesis
(sciencedirect.com)
12 points
Q&A weekly thread - December 15, 2025 - post all questions here!
11 points
I asked a cognitive linguist (Martin Hilpert) if Orwell's Newspeak is actually possible.
(youtu.be)
40 points
Q&A weekly thread - December 08, 2025 - post all questions here!
Semantic-argumentative study uses Freire’s “reading the world” to examine dwarfism in Disney’s live-action Snow White
(doi.org)
6 points
Interview with Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin: “Minority languages need to strengthen their strongholds, the areas where they are truly spoken”
(eurac.edu)
241 points
PHYS.Org: "Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason"
(phys.org)
31 points
Q&A weekly thread - December 01, 2025 - post all questions here!
10 points
Paul Kiparsky on Pāṇini | History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
(hiphilangsci.net)
21 points
Moral foundations and language ideologies: how different moral concerns predict endorsement of linguistic diversity, prescriptivism, and purism
32 points
AMA with Indiana University Computational Linguistics
(reddit.com)
9 points
Q&A weekly thread - November 24, 2025 - post all questions here!
14 points
Development of Aspect and Tense in Semitic Languages: Typological Considerations by Vit Bubenik
(scispace.com)
17 points
Q&A weekly thread - November 17, 2025 - post all questions here!
Vindicating the role of ideophones as a typological feature of Basque. Ibarretxe-Antuñano (2023)
(cambridge.org)
15 points
Italian dialects and language contact. Theory, typology, data. An introduction. Wild, Negrinelli, Breimaier, Cristelli, Loporcaro & Paciaroni. (2025).
(revistes.uab.cat)
Q&A weekly thread - November 10, 2025 - post all questions here!
Is this that? The Nitty-Gritty on Reduplication: So Good, You Have to Say it Twice. - JSTOR Daily
(daily.jstor.org)
19 points
Q&A weekly thread - November 03, 2025 - post all questions here!
18 points
Zellig Harris, Noam Chomsky and the verbal auxiliary
(youtube.com)
Harvard researcher Dr. Tiffany Hogan explains how speech and language shape literacy — fascinating interview