Language

Harvard FAS

What is Language? Is language “a uniquely human gift”? Is it central to the human experience, as many have suggested? Why do some writers say that Language is what “makes us human?” Do other animals have Language? Do AI models “know a language”? What does it even mean to ask questions like these? Do languages vary from one another without limit? Or is there an underlying common core beneath the surface diversity? How similar are languages across modalities (signed/spoken)? Do the languages we…