Ross Perlin is a linguist, translator and author of “Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

Chimpanzees combine hoots, calls and grunts to convey far more concepts than with single sounds alone. It may be a first among nonhuman animals.

The upshots of this technology are expected to be tremendous: more accurate diagnostics, better testing of analgesic drugs, ...

One way to make an apology more persuasive is to make it more costly. When apologisers are willing to incur a cost in the form of spending money, effort, or time, their apology is better received.

Though considerably less complex than the human brain, advanced AI models are of sufficient complexity to resist their ...

In Meaning Machine, you can enter any sentence you like into the input form at the top of the page to see how the large-scale language model converts each word into a token and how it captures the ...

An OSPA is an Objective Structured Professional Assessment similar to an OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination), used to assess clinical skills in medicine. The purpose of an OSPA is to ...

Language is far less neutral than we ... Jessica Rett is a professor of linguistics at UCLA. Her research investigates the meaning of words and how they contribute to the meanings of sentences ...

The greeting between the two went so viral that digital newspaper Irish Star asked body language expert Judi James for her opinion on the interaction between Meloni and Musk. "Meloni's charm seems ...