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

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily.

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 ...

The team were particularly interested in looking into the concept of "snow" given the often exaggerated idea about the Inuit ...

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

The linguist Paul Zinsli wrote an entire book on Swiss-German words related to mountains. In our recently-published study we ...

Researchers attempted to decode bonobo calls by recording their social context, then analyzed how the primates string together these vocalizations ...

Bonobos create complex, meaningful combinations of calls resembling human language, challenging assumptions about humans’ ...

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 ...