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Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to study, mainly because it uses thousands of characters. However, research shows that breaking characters into bite-sized pieces—known as radicals—may help.
NPR recently highlighted linguistics professor Dallin D. Oaks’s research on Utah name trends—something he believes is impacted by both politics and nature.
Mindfulness techniques have been shown to improve mental health, but they can do much more when used in the classroom.
Misconstruing the meaning of a word can have devastating results—as evidenced by what happened to Chris Rogers and his lost Fulbright Fellowship.
Seventy-five years after the Peanuts comic’s initial release, Charles Schulz’s daughter offers insight on the linguistics behind the characters’ humor.
Students from across campus joined together to share their passion for their studies through short rants on anything and everything linguistics.
Periodicals were a hot commodity in the Victorian era. Now, thanks to two BYU professors, we can read them once again.
Students all over campus join the Office of Digital Humanities to form a top-tier UX team where the user always comes first.
Today, female authors can have successful literary careers, but not many women in the past could. Professor Anna-Lisa Halling has found a way to change that.
The College of Humanities just added a new language for undergrads. But you don’t speak it, you type it.
As Professor Scott Alvord steps into his new presidential role in the AATSP, he plans to serve teachers all across the US.
Tutors can be expensive and hard to find. However, new research shows that AI may provide a suitable alternative to one-on-one tutoring—at half the cost.