Study finds complex languages may be more efficient for communication
How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication? To investigate, ...
Macaques appear to associate spoken words with pictures
One of the most important cognitive foundations of human language is our ability to develop associations between the ...
Learning a new language? Your mindset matters more than 'having a knack'
If you stumble when you need to talk to someone in a language that isn't your native language, do you think: "I just don't ...
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Building sentence structure may be language-specific
For every word in the audiobook ... The researchers next want to apply this method to study other languages, as well as the role of different linguistic properties. "Now that we know that we ...
Ancient DNA Points to Origins of Indo-European Language
A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...
Whalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research finds
All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...