Researchers from Fudan, Harvard, and Stony Brook have used AI and vast linguistic datasets to identify a universal statistical structure in the evolution of 22 languages. By mapping vocabularies into ...

New research is uncovering both the ancient genetic underpinnings and universal structural patterns of human language. One ...

A new study led by Dr. Andrea Nini at The University of Manchester has found that a grammar-based approach to language ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

In at least one crucial way, AI has already won its campaign for global dominance. An unbelievable volume of synthetic prose is published every moment of every day—heaping piles of machine-written ...

Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

When you walk into your doctor’s office, you assume something so basic that it barely needs articulation: the doctor has touched a body before. They have studied anatomy, seen organs, and learned the ...

Some adults learn a second language better than others, and their secret may involve the rhythms of activity in their brains. New findings by scientists at the University of Washington demonstrate ...