“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Adults learning another language often tend to continue using the intonation of their native language. This causes them to ...

Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...

Much has been said about the remarkable ability humans have to extract meaning from language. That ability is remarkable indeed. In a split second, we perceive a spoken or written word and immediately ...

Research shows that the arts support children’s development through visual, aural, language, and movement modes, offering a multisensory foundation for communication and learning. In early-years ...

Scientists say they have made an atlas of where words' meanings are located in the brain. The map shows that words are represented in different regions throughout the brain's outer layer. To make the ...

There is a kind of language that carries more weight than grammar or eloquence. It is the language of gratitude. It is the ...

Generative AI using large-scale language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok respond appropriately to user words just like a human. However, there is a big difference between how large-scale ...