The late UCLA professor Peter Ladefoged was the Indiana Jones of spoken language. For almost 50 years, the phonetics researcher traveled the globe with recording equipment, in search of obscure and ...

A recent Facebook report on the way chatbots converse with each other has given the world a glimpse into the future of language. In the report, researchers from the Facebook Artificial Intelligence ...

The genetic hardware that gave rise to humanity’s unique language capabilities first emerged at least 135,000 years ago, when all Homo sapiens still lived in one unbroken tribe. As this original group ...

A unique single case study suggests that first and second languages of bilingual people are represented in different places in the brain. A new study carried out at the University of Haifa sheds light ...