The appearance of predictive text in writing an email or text message has become, for better or worse, a regular feature of ...

Throughout the history of the language, what has been considered ‘bad’ speech often becomes ‘proper.’ You just have to give ...

Negation-based language is cognitively ineffective. And when amplified by AI-generated writing it distorts how people engage ...

When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

So far as we know, true symbolic language is unique to the human species. The question of how we alone came to ...

This manuscript presents important findings that challenge traditional models of speech processing by demonstrating that theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the auditory cortex is primarily a ...

The ability to predict brain activity from words before they occur can be explained by information shared between neighbouring words, without requiring next-word prediction by the brain.

Naturekind: Language, Culture and Power Beyond the Human. by Melissa Leach, James Fairhead. Princeton University Press 2025. 272 pp. (paper) ISBN 978-0-691-27066-1. R ...

Progovac's study challenges two dominant narratives in human evolution: "survival of the fittest" (physical strength) and "survival of the friendliest" (prosociality). While both played a role, ...

Delgado is the director of Texas initiatives for the English Learners Success Forum. With over 30 years of experience in ...