Chimpanzees, like humans, have the capacity to combine vocalizations to create larger, meaningful forms of communication. According to UZH researchers, this capability could be even…
Connections of the language network adapt to the processing demands and difficulties of the mother tongue. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive…
A recent study conducted by Rutgers University reveals that British and American English speakers use the word “right” differently in their daily conversations. Are the…
Ancient Grammatical Puzzle Solved After 2,500 Years A grammatical problem that has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by…
According to new research, persons who used analytical language saw greater weight reduction and a lower dropout rate. Millions of people throughout the globe struggle…
An MIT study identifies ways that lawyers could make their written documents easier for the average person to read. Legal documents, such as contracts or…
Pig Grunts Reveal Their Emotions We can now decode pigs’ emotions. Using thousands of acoustic recordings gathered throughout the lives of pigs, from their births…
Among adults who vary in their knowledge of number words, the ability to reason about numbers is bound by the highest number they can count…
A new method automatically describes, in natural language, what the individual components of a neural network do. Neural networks are sometimes called black boxes because,…
Hippopotamuses are rather vocal animals. Their “wheeze honk” calls can be heard over long distances, leading researchers to suspect the calls play an important role…
Neuroscientists find the internal workings of next-word prediction models resemble those of language-processing centers in the brain. In the past few years, artificial intelligence models…
Hoover the seal was initially kept in a family home and could imitate human speech, barking catch phrases in a gruff accent (“Come over here”)….
Dogs extract words from continuous speech using similar computations and brain regions as humans do, a new study combining EEG and fMRI by researchers from…
The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you’re reading this in English, you’re on a branch that traces…
Voices of reason? Study links acoustic correlations, gender to vocal appeal. What makes a voice attractive? The question is the subject of broad interest, with…
More than anything else, language defines human nature. Speech, the vocal output of language, requires precise control over our vocal articulators, including tongue, lips and…
Math and language processed by separate networks even if heard together. Separate math and language networks segregate naturally when listeners pay attention to one type…
Analysis demonstrates the value of studying non-western cultures to bring important new insights to mainstream musicology and linguistics. Musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric…
