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

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

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

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

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

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

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

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

Knowing the right generational lingo is as important on TikTok and Tinder as it is in IRL. Across the board, Gen Zs, ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

There's a reason "antidisestablishmentarianism" is more a piece of trivia than vital to the English language. Because a word ...

In their study, the researchers trained language models on more than 6,500 documents in more than 2,000 languages, covering almost 3 billion words. The texts included religious writings ...