One of the most significant contributions of Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching has been a conceptual shift — a reorientation away from viewing grammar as an arbitrary set of rules to be memor...

Explore the science of language with a linguist’s guide to LLMs. Learn why AI doesn't "think," and how understanding true linguistics can help build better AI models.

So when we ask whether AI “understands,” we must be careful. It produces outputs that look like understanding because it has learned the distributional patterns associated with meaningful language use...

What fundamentally differentiates a linguist working within a Cognitive Linguistic framework is not simply the technical apparatus they employ, but the assumptions they bring to the very nature of lan...

When I describe Cognitive Linguistics as an “enterprise,” I do so quite deliberately. It was never merely a theory in the narrow sense — not simply a competing model of syntax or semantics. It emerged...

If you wanted a petri dish for understanding metaphors—how they emerge and evolve and jostle with each other—it would be hard to do better than the world of AI. We talk about AI systems variously as c...

Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to pause and reflect about language instead of just using it automatically. Learn about its 5 components and how to develop it.

Speaking a second language doesn’t impact moral decisions as much as previously thought.

All things bilingual: PhD-level eye rolls at bad language takes. Click to read Cristina Lozano, by Cristina Lozano Argüelles, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Dr Adam Schembri, Professor of Linguistics, explains the importance of studying the science of language to mark World Linguistics Day.

A friend and I were talking about our childhoods outside the U.S.—how we grew up, what we missed, and what’s been hard to translate into our lives here. At one point, she said, a little exasperated bu...

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How metaphors shape our understanding of complex ideas like the soul