This is because words of human languages have meanings, and the ways that those words combine also has an effect on meaning. This module looks at the different aspects of meaning that contribute to ...

Comprehensibility encompasses both speech intelligibility and language proficiency, which involves competence with the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic aspects of language use. Comprehensibility ...

Comprehensibility is influenced by segmental and suprasegmental aspects of speech production and by all aspects of language including syntactic adequacy and complexity and semantic variation and ...

Historical Linguistics explores different aspects of language change. The most commonly studied areas in historical linguistics are: Etymology: Studying the reconstruction and origin of words.

Beyond language learning, you'll also engage with aspects of the culture, social history and literature of the countries where your language(s) of study are spoken, and have the opportunity to study ...

By analyzing these synchronized data streams, we could map how specific aspects of language–like the words being spoken and the conversational context–were represented in the dynamic patterns ...

challenges long-held assumptions about what makes human communication unique and suggests that key aspects of language are evolutionarily ancient. The research is published in the journal Science.