Linguists have long sought to describe unfamiliar languages. That work has taken on new urgency, though, as more and more languages become endangered. Students and faculty at William and Mary have ...

Many people think that they can recognize a gay man based on his speech. In other words, they believe that they have a gaydar. Previous linguistic studies showed that some features of language used by ...

As the parent of two teenagers, being a linguist did not adequately prepare me for the strange things that sometimes come out of their mouths. For example, "like" is omnipresent, "hecka" punctuates ...