Studying how people use language — what words and phrases they unconsciously choose and combine — can help us better understand ourselves and why we behave the way we do. Linguistics scholars seek to determine what is unique and universal about the language we use, how it is acquired and the ways it changes over time. They consider language as a cultural, social and psychological phenomenon.
The stories below represent some of the ways linguists have investigated many aspects of language, including its semantics and syntax, phonetics and phonology, and its social, psychological and computational aspects. Stanford linguists and psychologists study how language is interpreted by people. Even the slightest differences in language use can correspond with biased beliefs of the speakers, according to research.
Language can play a big role in how we and others perceive the world, and linguists work to discover what words and phrases can influence us, unknowingly. New Stanford research shows that sentences that frame one gender as the standard for the other can unintentionally perpetuate biases. New Stanford research shows that, over the past century, linguistic changes in gender and ethnic stereotypes correlated with major social movements and demographic changes in the U.
Census data. People speak roughly 7, languages worldwide. Although there is a lot in common among languages, each one is unique, both in its structure and in the way it reflects the culture of the people who speak it. Fifth-year PhD student Kate Lindsey recently returned to the United States after a year of documenting an obscure language indigenous to the South Pacific nation.
In a research project spanning eight countries, two Stanford students search for Esperanto, a constructed language, against the backdrop of European populism. For example, in one research paper, a group of Stanford researchers examined the differences in how Republicans and Democrats express themselves online to better understand how a polarization of beliefs can occur on social media. New research by Dora Demszky and colleagues examined how Republicans and Democrats express themselves online in an attempt to understand how polarization of beliefs occurs on social media.
A Stanford senior studied a group of bilingual children at a Spanish immersion preschool in Texas to understand how they distinguished between their two languages. Stanford linguist Dan Jurafsky and colleagues have found that products in Japan sell better if their advertising includes polite language and words that invoke cultural traditions or authority.
By examining conversations of elderly Japanese women, linguist Yoshiko Matsumoto uncovers language techniques that help people move past traumatic events and regain a sense of normalcy. Uniting computer science, mathematics and genomics, cryptogenomics expert Gill Bejerano hopes to expand access to DNA while also keeping it secret.
Transgender adults who started gender-affirming hormone therapy as teens had better mental health than those who waited until adulthood or wanted the treatment but never received it, a Stanford-led study found. You can follow the implementation status of new features in the Solidity Github project. You can actively shape Solidity by providing your input and participating in the language design. The Solidity forum is here! Read the announcement and join the discussion. The results of the Solidity Developer Survey are published!
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