A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By ...
Dependency linguistics examines the relationships between words in a sentence, focussing on how syntactic structure is determined by directed links—dependencies—between a head and its dependents. This ...
Learn how early human language relied on simple verb-noun combinations, and how these structures still survive today as clues ...
An AI model trained on dozens of hours of real-world conversation accurately predicts human brain activity and shows that features of language structure emerge without being coded in. When you ...
Understanding a simple-looking sentence such as “I read this article yesterday” actually requires some sophisticated conceptual computation: a subject (“I”) performed an action (“read”) on an object ( ...
Overview AI language is structured and consistent, while human English thrives on variation, emotion, and personal ...