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a poster encouraging people to translate their work to the local language

Machine translation could make English-only science accessible to all

August 16, 2022

a professor stands at the front of a class talking while students listen

Leo Bersani, cultural critic and professor emeritus of French, has died

February 25, 2022

Adult frowning at smartphone while child sits with arms folded.

Word gap: When money’s tight, parents talk less to kids

July 16, 2021

Zachary O'Hagan in the home of anthropologist Gerald Weiss packing up his Ashaninka collection.

Chance phone call keeps alive scholar’s remarkable Amazonian legacy

May 24, 2021

Hannah Sande smiles at the camera

Meet our new faculty: Hannah Sande, linguistics

March 2, 2021

three photos: a woman with sunglasses looking into the distance; two parents and two small kids sitting on a porch; a photo taken in the 1900s of a woman wearing a hat

Language is more than how we speak — it’s home

February 16, 2021

Person in white shirt smiles at the camera

Meet our new faculty: Gasper Begus, linguistics

February 9, 2021

Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda in a boat in the Colombian jungle

Is English the lingua franca of science? Not for everyone.

October 14, 2020

A photo of Geoffrey Nunberg at the 2019 I School Commencement. He is wearing academic regalia and standing behind a podium that says

UC Berkeley’s Geoffrey Nunberg, famed NPR linguist, dies at 75

August 14, 2020

Young girl, monkey, Bolivian woman and American woman being tested on recursion ability.

Native Amazonians, Americans and monkeys show similar thinking patterns

June 26, 2020

a baby in front of binary code

Kids store 1.5 megabytes of information to master their native language

March 27, 2019

vocal bursts map

Gasp! First audio map of oohs, aahs and uh-ohs spans 24 emotions

February 4, 2019

Ariel Bloch, his grandson Zander and daughter-in-law Trang Vo,

Ariel Bloch, a pioneer in the fusion of Arab and Hebrew studies, dies at 85

January 9, 2019

Haruo Aoki stands between Piatote and Sobotta, receiving a blanket from the Nez Perce scholars. Haruo is a professor emeritus of East Asian languages.

New graduate program aims to keep languages from disappearing

July 27, 2018

sean brown

For Native American student, reclaiming his culture began at Berkeley

June 5, 2018

Scientists detect how words grow new meanings. Maybe computers will, too

February 27, 2018