Boston University

Linguistics & Language Sciences

A photo of a father and son working together on a tablet

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

A photo of Graham Grail smiling at the camera

Voice & Gender

How Testosterone Changes the Voices of Trans Men

March 3, 2021

Fallou Ngom sits in the home of an Ajami manuscript owner in Belfort, Ziguinchor, Senegal.

Anthropology

Digitizing Ajami, a Centuries-Old African Script

January 23, 2020

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Politics

We Say Quid Pro Quo a Lot. But What Does It Mean?

October 29, 2019

Portrait of Stephanie Curenton

Accolades

BU Researcher Named National Black Child Development Institute Fellow

August 29, 2019

Japanese soldiers playing the American game of baseball supposedly in China during the war

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

deaf children participate in a American Sign Language class

Linguistics & Language Sciences

Getting the Word In

March 6, 2017

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Neuroscience

The Dyslexia Paradox

January 24, 2017

Tyler Perrachione, Director of Boston University Sargent College Communication Neuroscience Research Laboratory, holds a card showing a word used in the nonword repetition tests studying language disorders and phonological working memory in the dyslexic brain

Neuroscience

Mind Reader

January 13, 2017

Swathi Kiran and Jeffrey Johnson

Linguistics & Language Sciences

Getting the Words Back

November 1, 2016

Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering

Hearing Sciences

Tuning In

September 29, 2016

Gerald Kidd and Jayaganesh Swaminathan study the cocktail party problem: why it’s so hard to distinguish one voice in a crowd. Can musical training help?

Hearing Sciences

The Cocktail Party Problem

October 5, 2015

Max Kon

Linguistics & Language Sciences

A Rare Syndrome, a Brother’s Love

July 27, 2015

Language Analysis, Fallou Ngom

Linguistics & Language Sciences

Crossing Borders

November 6, 2014

Crossing Borders