Kuperman’s research project will leverage linguistic research and language technologies to improve adult educational systems across the country.
What gestures add to communication. I’ve always been thrilled by the possibilities of language. I remember making up my own language when I was a kid, and I used to take out my whole family’s maximum number of books from the library.
Shana Poplack is a linguistic mythbuster. With colleagues and students from all over the world, she has analyzed the bilingual discourse of speakers of more than a dozen language pairs.