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Northeastern Global News

November 9, 2026

Heather Littlefield
Associate Academic Specialist in Linguistics, Assistant Director and Head Advisor of Linguistics
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Expertise
acquisition of syntactic categories in first language acquisition, syntactic distinction of lexical and functional categories, syntax of African languages

Heather Littlefield for Northeastern Global News

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AI and digital culture make their way into Merriam-Webster

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
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Are bots changing how people talk? Language in the age of AI

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by Katya Poltorak

3Qs: What using the name ‘Daesh,’ rather than ‘ISIS’ or ‘ISIL,’ really means

by Thea Singer

3Qs: The evolution of profanity

by Linda Ogbevoen

3Qs: Not your mother’s neologisms

by Jordana Torres