A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

Language feels simple when we use it. We talk, we text, we listen, and words seem to appear naturally from thought. But the study of linguistics tells a more complicated story, one where language ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

The team, led by Annemarie Verkerk of Saarland University (photo) and Russell Gray from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, has examined around 1,700 languages to identify ...

Learning a new language before the Internet was brutal. It involved dense textbooks and a bunch of in-person classes, spending innumerable hours en route to full fluency. We've come a long way since ...

Summary: A new framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary leap but from the convergence of many biological abilities and cultural processes. The authors highlight ...

Abstract: With the widespread application of generative artificial intelligence (AIGC) in video content creation, the linguistic structure of prompts has emerged as a key factor influencing both ...

Using more than one language shapes brain structure, a phenomenon widely observed in bilingual groups (Abutalebi et al., 2015a; DeLuca et al., 2019, 2020; Grundy et ...

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