The AI revolution, which has begun to transform our lives over the past three years, is built on a fundamental linguistic ...

For years, people have laughed about how Arctic communities supposedly have dozens, if not hundreds, of words for snow. It ...

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, owners have been training their dogs to “tell” them what they want by mashing buttons with ...

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to ...

Human language allows us to learn new words for things we've never witnessed directly. We do this seamlessly, for example, in ...

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...

Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

New research shows that 15-month-old infants can understand words for unseen objects, revealing how babies learn through ...

Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen.

Doctors say that human language allows people to learn new words for things we’ve never witnessed directly. The post Study ...

It’s a linguistic tradition that was passed from Tarrant’s great-grandfather, Chief ThunderBird, the last Shinnecock Nation ...

Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation helped ...