New research centre to investigate how language works
FollowA new national research centre based at ANU will investigate how language works and how it makes us who we are.
Based at the University, the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language draws together the nation’s top linguists, philosophers, psychologists and roboticists to puzzle out the complex mechanisms of human communication.
The new centre will focus on four key areas: how languages differ, how they are learned, how the brain processes them and how they evolve.
“We once imagined that all languages had the same basic operating system,