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Lingustics & Language Sciences

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Research News

Brink Bites: Tracking Endangered Frogs, Why Concentration Wanders, Studying Kids’ Beliefs

May 6, 2025

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Inauguration 2024

Inauguration 2024 Research on Tap Celebrates BU’s Power to Bring Scholars Together to Better Our World

September 25, 2024

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Listen Now

What Is Language and How Does It Evolve?

March 1, 2024

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Education

How Dickens and Other Authors Shaped Attitudes to Education—with Lasting Impacts

December 5, 2023

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Linguistics & Language Sciences

Unearthing a Long-Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans

December 21, 2022

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ASL and AI

Can Artificial Intelligence Reveal Why Languages Change Over Time?

March 29, 2022

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Baby Brains and Language

When It Comes to Communication Skills—Maybe We’re Born with It?

August 20, 2021

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Rehabilitation Sciences

Beware Using Telemedicine for Voice and Speech Therapy

July 15, 2021

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Paleoanthropology

Is “Dragon Man” a Missing Link in Human Evolution?

July 9, 2021

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Language Rehabilitation

Scientists Can Predict How Well a Stroke Survivor Will Recover Language Skills Using Computer Simulations of the Brain

June 3, 2021

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Digital Health

Can This Free Mobile App Help Autistic Children Develop Better Language Skills?

April 2, 2021

Deaf Studies

World’s Largest American Sign Language Database Makes ASL Even More Accessible

March 22, 2021

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Voice & Gender

How Testosterone Changes the Voices of Trans Men

March 3, 2021

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Innovation

A New Era of Deaf Education

January 29, 2021

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Performance Arts

Why Policing the Way Voices Sound Has to Stop

September 17, 2020

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Return to Campus Labs

BU Unveils First Phase of Campuswide Research Recovery Plan

May 6, 2020

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International Relations

Long before Pearl Harbor, Japan Tried to Get America on Its Side

February 22, 2019

Fallou Ngom, director of the African Studies Center

Education

African Studies Center Expands Curriculum

September 24, 2018

Cara Stepp

Rehabilitation Sciences

Regaining a Voice

March 9, 2017

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Linguistics & Language Sciences

Getting the Word In

March 6, 2017

Getting the Word In