Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS Biology, scientists from the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics ...

UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and ...

Language structure is partly determined by social structure Date: January 28, 2010 Source: University of Pennsylvania Summary: Psychologists argue that human languages may adapt more like ...

Predicting what comes next Both sentence building strategies could predict activity in the major left hemisphere's language areas. But the effects were much stronger for predictive structure building.

Brain structure of infants predicts language skills at one year Date: January 22, 2013 Source: University of Washington Summary: Using a brain-imaging technique that examines the entire infant ...

It’s widely thought that human language evolved in universally similar ways, following trajectories common across place and culture, and possibly reflecting common linguistic structures in our ...

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Reflections on radical fundamentalism in language science Posted Apr 20, 2015 ...