A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re improvising. “Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, ...

At the School of Design, Media, and Creative Arts (SDMCA), JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), the B.A. (Honours) User Experience ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

There’s an old saying of, ‘Never meet your heroes’, the message being that the person you long admired may not turn out to be as great as you think. Luckily, Cecilio Waterman never got the memo.

In the experiments, content words are replaced by invented tokens while grammatical structure is preserved. A human reader ...

A new study explores how human-like language shapes the way we talk about artificial intelligence. Think, know, understand, remember. These are the kinds of mental verbs people use every day to ...

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 ...