Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

And they found that, while researchers produce far more papers after starting to use AI and the quality of the language used ...

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

In Dobson's eyes, Shakespeare depicted the complexity of human nature, while Tang Xianzu wrote about the pursuit of the soul.

An adult female seal and a young seal lay side by side in grass. Atlantic gray seal mothers (shown, left) feed their young on high-fat milk that is also rich in complex sugars to support their ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

In groundbreaking work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...

Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is one of the best-selling albums of all time, both generally and among soundtracks specifically, but its legacy extends far beyond its ubiquity ...

Abstract: The cognitive complexity in student writing reflects the depth of learning and critical thinking that is essential for educational assessment. However, traditional rubric-based ratings are ...

The U.S. Census Bureau tracks data on more than 500 languages spoken across the country, creating significant hurdles for public agencies tasked with equally serving all residents through the ...