Scientists are discovering that animals use surprisingly sophisticated communication to form partnerships and cooperate ...

Language understanding is inherently multimodal. Whether we read, listen, or converse, our brains go beyond words to draw on visual scenes, prosody, prior ...

Many languages recycle words, giving them different meanings. For example, in English, "run" can mean to move quickly but ...

Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, ...

By applying machine-learning models to single-cell brain recordings taken from humans in conversation, a research team ...

When an exam board for England, Wales and Northern Ireland recently clarified that students are now permitted to use ...

In Ecuador’s highlands, a seamless mix of Kichwa and Spanish creates a language that bends grammar, adds melody and goes ...

Social conventions—such as how people dress and greet in the workplace—pervade human culture. Yet how people learn conventions as they emerge and evolve in social networks is an enduring puzzle.

The developer demonstrates highly consistent naming conventions across multiple languages, with a strong preference for snake_case and clear, descriptive names that indicate purpose and subsystem ...

Faculty and students from UNR Med presented nationally at the 100th annual convention of The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association “This was a vibrant, creative community of professionals,” ...

The 2024 Republican National Convention begins Day 3 on Wednesday. On Day 1, former President Trump officially received the Republican nomination. On Truth Social, he announced Ohio Sen. JD Vance ...

Real-life language comprehension frequently requires nonliteral interpretation and inferences about speaker intent. What is the structure of these so-called pragmatic abilities? We applied a ...