New research from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has significant implications for understanding both ...

A new study uses deep linear networks to prove that language undergoes iterated learning to become structured and learnable.

Using artificial intelligence (AI), scientists have unraveled the intricate brain activity that unfolds during everyday conversations. The tool could offer new insights into the neuroscience of ...

The success of ChatGPT and its competitors is based on what’s termed emergent behaviors. These systems, called large language models (LLMs), weren’t trained to output natural-sounding language (or ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting words together into never-before-spoken or -written sentences," said ...

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PHILADELPHIA –- Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Memphis have released a new study on linguistic evolution that challenges the prominent hypothesis for why ...

Linguistic structures comprise the organised systems by which human languages encode form and meaning. At the phonological level, inventories of sounds or gestures combine according to ...