Linguist, activist and social critic Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in his wife’s native country of Brazil recovering from a massive stroke he had a year ago, she confirmed Tuesday. Valeria Chomsky said ...

Renowned linguist Noam Chomsky is joining the University of Arizona faculty this fall and will begin teaching in the spring semester. “Having a scholar of Dr. Chomsky’s caliber on our campus presents ...

In his landmark 1949 paper, Claude Shannon showed how simple statistical models called Markov chains could reproduce the structure of human language. By modeling how letters and words depend on one ...

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...