I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple ...

A linguist and a historian have been working to bring back to life the Timucua language, which they say has likely not been spoken in more than 200 years. Unrelated to any other known language, ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

AI systems that understand and generate text, known as language models, are the hot new thing in the enterprise. A recent survey found that 60% of tech leaders said that their budgets for AI language ...

As explained in a previous post, there is not only one Chinese language but many variants and dialects. It was only after the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in 1912, that Mandarin, a ...

While working at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., the late cognitive neuroscientist Ursula Bellugi discovered that, much like spoken language, sign language was made up ...

When it comes to communication, words get it done. Words can sell, excite, inflame, prompt sacrifice, mend hearts, and that’s not even the beginning. People remember leaders for their words. The right ...

What's the difference between speaking and singing? It’s a harder question than it sounds. You may think the answer is simply that songs have melodies and that speech lacks them. But that doesn’t ...