First and foremost, let’s talk benefits: learning a new language can change your life in more ways than one. It’s pretty common knowledge that you look more attractive to employers if you’re bilingual ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.