A speech study by a research team from The University of Texas at El Paso has identified an underappreciated aspect of speech ...

Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces possible origins to Old High German “halâ,” a cry used to hail a ferryman, and to “halloo,” a hunting call urging hounds forward ...

Language feels simple when we use it. We talk, we text, we listen, and words seem to appear naturally from thought. But the study of linguistics tells a more complicated story, one where language ...

S ome people refuse to use baby talk with babies. The sing-song repetition of cute nonsense words commonly spoken by adults ...

Think, know, understand, remember. These are just a few of the mental verbs we use every day to describe what happens in a ...

Language is one of the most resilient components of culture. Though many languages have disappeared over the course of thousands of years, many are thriving today and carrying on the traditions and ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a partial sequence matching based symbolic search (SS) method for the task of language independent query-by-example spoken term detection. One main drawback of ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

In the St. Cloud area, Somali is the most spoken language after English. The St. Cloud Area School District represents more than 50 languages. While the district can face challenges navigating many ...

A lot of languages, like English, are a mishmash of loanwords and grammatical rules borrowed from other languages. So, it's filled with exceptions to the rule. So, I am curious, since this forum is a ...