Humans speak more than 7,000 languages today. As different as they all seem, researchers argue in a new review that they all stem from a single linguistic family tree that emerged before our species ...

Speech feels ordinary because it fills daily life, flowing through kitchens and waiting rooms without demanding attention. Words appear while hands stay busy, always carrying meaning with little ...

Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed "linguistic universals"—patterns ...

The cerebellum, often called the little brain, plays a much bigger role in language processing than once believed. Located at ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

By tracking brain activity as people listened to a spoken story, researchers found that the brain builds meaning step by step ...

A new study suggests that language may rely less on complex grammar than previously thought. Every time we speak, we’re ...

Anna Jon-And receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council and has received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Johan Lind has received funding from the Swedish Research ...

OpenAI is making internet search available to all ChatGPT users, allowing people to engage conversationally with the chatbot while seeking answers or information from ...