New research reveals how human DNA preserves the story of language contact, showing when and where languages converged, ...

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but wants more evidence from Madeleine Beekman's The Origin of Language ...

In human language, syntax is the set of rules that creates a system capable of expressing an infinite number of meanings. “Syntax is all about providing more and more precise, refined information.

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has ...

Professor of linguistics Emily Bender discusses the limitations of speech powered by LLMs and why it’s fundamentally different from human speech.

Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our ...

Preply, the #1 global language learning marketplace, today unveils a new suite of AI tools designed to accelerate goal-driven language learning. Since launching in 2012, the platform, which connects ...

There Might Be Something Human in the Way Bonobos Communicate—Their Calls Share a Key Trait With Our Language, Study Suggests Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their ...

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