When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways.

A linguistic anthropologist says the hand positions carved on a 1,300-year-old Maya stone altar encode calendar dates through ...

Accra, Ghana’s bustling capital, is often celebrated as the heartbeat of Africa’s democracy and a hub of commerce, culture, ...

A new study shows that gifted word learner dogs extend verbal labels to new objects based on functional similarity and form ...

New research suggests some dogs might have a surprisingly nuanced understanding of the essence of that toy—and what it might ...

One year after receiving a grant to study canine vocalizations, The University of Texas at Arlington researcher Kenny Zhu has ...

Figurative language is the term for the many linguistic devices we consciously or subconsciously draw upon in our conversations ...

A large-scale study by the University of Wolverhampton and the University of Sheffield shows that since ChatGPT’s release in ...

In the fight to improve AI models, Anthropic and OpenAI have doubled down on two methods: letting models train on fake clones ...

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

A UK exchange student based in Queensland has highlighted some of the Aussie words she'd never encountered before moving Down ...

What seems different about 21st-century English is the speed with which these changes spread and are adopted—at least ...