One of the most important cognitive foundations of human language is our ability to develop associations between the ...

A new study reveals that 4-month-old babies can distinguish between languages by hearing different speech sounds. Contrary to ...

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

Imagine seeing a furry, four-legged animal that meows. Mentally, you know what it is, but the word "cat" is stuck on the tip ...

Scientists are developing a brain-computer interface to help patients with Broca’s aphasia regain speech. Broca’s aphasia ...

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new ...

How do languages balance the richness of their structures with the need for efficient communication? To investigate, ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

Though a study found that cats learn to associate images with words faster than human babies do, the authors of the research ...

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 ...