Researchers discover that the brain proactively builds sentence structures during speech using predictive processing, explaining why second-language listening is difficult.

Without assuming anything about meaning or trying to decode the mysterious 15th-century Voynich Manuscript, Brian Grant wrote software that analyzed the structure of its inscrutable text to see if it ...

The structure of languages may reveal more about their roots than their vocabularies do, according to a new biologically inspired linguistic technique. Studying languages can be extremely useful to ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...