The more closely scientists listen to the brain during conversation, the more its activity patterns resemble the statistical ...

Words are not random units. Rather, they follow hidden linguistic structures that demonstrate how language generates meaning ...

Dependency linguistics examines the relationships between words in a sentence, focussing on how syntactic structure is determined by directed links—dependencies—between a head and its dependents. This ...

An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that features of language structure emerge without being coded in. When you ...

New research shows AI can analyze language with skills rivaling human experts, challenging long-held ideas about intelligence ...

The way in which you put sentences together really changes the meaning and how clear and good your writing or speaking is.

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...